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Anuja Varghese

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Anuja Varghese

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
Canada
Languages
English
Residence History
Hamilton, Ontario

Career

Occupations
writer, short story writer
Active Years
2021-2024
Nominations
2021 Pushcart Prize nominee ('Throwing Salt')

Awards

Dayne Ogilvie Prize
2023
Work: Chrysalis
Category: LGBT文学
Organization: Writers' Trust of Canada
Result: winner
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
2023
Work: Chrysalis
Category: English-language fiction
Organization: Canada Council for the Arts
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Governor General's Awards 1 appearances
  1. Edition 88 (2023) Winner
    Work: Chrysalis

    Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community. A couple in a crumbling marriage faces divine inter…

    Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shield…

    175 pages
    Fictionfamilypowersexualityqueer identity

Works

Major Works

Chrysalis

2023 short story collection

Debut short story collection published in 2023. Horror and shame commingle with joy and transformation.

transformationhorrorshamejoyqueernessresistance

Bibliography

  • Chrysalis (2023)
  • Throwing Salt
  • Stories in The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Plenitude
  • When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead
  • Queer Little Nightmares

Style & Themes

Literary Style
horror-infused stylenarrative focused on transformation
Recurring Motifs
metamorphosisqueer identityresistance

Legacy

Canadian writer who won the 2023 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and Dayne Ogilvie Prize for her debut collection Chrysalis. Emerging voice from Hamilton, Ontario, of Asian descent and bisexual.

Trivia

  • Bisexual
  • Canadian writer of Asian descent
  • From Hamilton, Ontario