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NOW's Best Emerging Author: Lauren Kirshner

Submitted by clelia on November 2, 2009 - 1:59pm
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NOW's Best Emerging Author: Lauren Kirshner

Lauren Kirshner, author of Where We Have To Go (McClelland & Stewart) and former Open Book writer in residence, has been named Best Emerging Author by NOW Magazine in their Best of Toronto list. They write about her debut novel, "[Kirshner] shows terrific powers of observation as she tracks her protagonist Lucy’s high school years, especially in a knockout section about her incarceration in a house for the 'criminally thin.' Kirshner’s funny, too. More, please." Congratulations Lauren!

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Rosalind Porter is the senior editor of Granta magazine, the esteemed British (and now also American) literary quarterly perhaps best known for its “Best of Young British Novelists” issues, the first of which, in 1983, featured such up-and-comers as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Pat Barker and Ian McEwan. Though Porter lives in London, she grew up in Toronto, and got her first job at Key Porter Books. After relocating to England for grad school, she worked as an editor at Random House UK. In 2008, she co-edited, with Joshua Knelman, an anthology of fictional love letters entitled Four Letter Words. On the strength of that book, she was offered a job at Granta.

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