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Michael Redhill

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Michael Redhill was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1966, but has lived in Toronto since the age of one. Educated in the United States and Canada, he took seven years to complete a three-year BA in acting, film, and finally, English Literature. He is a poet, novelist, and playwright, who has also worked as an editor, a ghost-writer, an anthologist, a scriptwriter for film and television, a waiter, a house-painter, and a bookseller. He was the publisher and one of the editors of Brick from 1998 - 2014. His first novel, Martin Sloane, was nominated for the Giller Prize, the Trillium Prize, The Torgi Award, and won The Books in Canada/Amazon.com Best First Novel Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean. His second novel, Consolation, won the City of Toronto Book Award and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His poetry includes Light-crossing and Lake Nora Arms, and his play Building Jerusalem, won a Dora for Best New Play and a Chalmers Award for Playwriting, and was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. His play, Goodness, premiered at Tarragon Theatre in November 2005, and in August 2006, played at the Edinburgh Fringe, where it won a “Fringe First Award,” as well as the Carole Tambor Best of Edinburgh prize. In addition to publishing eleven books under his own name, he has also published four works of crime fiction under the name of Inger Ash Wolfe. His most recent novel, Bellevue Square, was published in 2017 and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He has two sons and lives in Toronto.
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