Early reviews of Camilla's new novel, THE BEAUTY OF HUMANITY MOVEMENT, are in.
Congratulations to Paule Noyart for winning the 2009 Governor General's Award for translation of Le miel d'Harar (Sweetness in the Belly).
Congratulations to all the excellent writers whose stories were selected for inclusion in this year's Journey Prize anthology.
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book news
Camilla's new novel, THE BEAUTY OF HUMANITY MOVEMENT, has just been released in Canada. This will be followed by US and UK editions in March 2011.
Listen to audio reviews of Sweetness in the Belly at Conversations Live and National Public Radio.
Read an interview with Barack Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, on what she's reading.
Sweetness in the Belly was longlisted for the 2007 Impac Dublin Literary Award, was the winner of Ontario’s 2006 Trillium Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Ontario Library Association's Evergreen Award.
The book was also a 2006 Barnes and Noble Discover Award nominee, a Book Sense Pick, and a Borders Original Voices selection and appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Seller List and the MacLean's Bestseller List .
Amazon.ca selected Sweetness in the Belly as the #2 book published in 2005 and the Globe and Mail listed it as one of the Best Books of 2005.
The audio version of Sweetness in the Belly is now available on cd from Penguin US.
THE PETTY DETAILS OF SO-AND-SO'S LIFE spent 4 weeks on the MacLean's Bestseller List in 2002 and the Globe and Mail selected the novel as one of the Best Books of the Year.
MOUTHING THE WORDS was selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Baltimore Sun, the Globe and Mail and Now Magazine and won the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000.
other news
Camilla's short story, "Where We Gather at Night," published in Maisonneuve Magazine's summer 2007 issue, was nominated for a National Magazine Award.
In 2007 Camilla served on the jury of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and ended a four-year term as Vice President of PEN Canada.
In 2006 Camilla served as the Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, and Writer-in-Electronic-Residence for Royal St. George's College in Toronto. Camilla has been an Adjunct Faculty Member with the MA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto and a mentor with the University of Guelph-Humber MFA Program in Creative Writing for the past two years.
Camilla Gibb was one of two Canadian authors named to the Orange Futures List in 2001, compiled by the Orange Prize – one of the world’s premier literary honors – to celebrate twenty-one promising young writers to watch in the new century.
Camilla's short story "Between Wars" was the winner of the 2001 CBC Canadian Literary Award for short story.
new and forthcoming work
A short piece of memoir appears in the September 2010 issue of Elle (Canada).
Read a new short story published in the Autumn 2009 issue of the British literary journal The Drawbridge.
Read an essay in India's premiere fashion magazine Verve, July 2009.
A piece of memoir will appear in City of Words, edited by Sarah Elton (Cormorant Books, November 2009).
The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Memoir, edited by Camilla Gibb. Forthcoming.
A new introduction to Marie Claire Blais's Anna's World (Le visions d'Anna ou le vertige), to be published by Exile Editions.
"Principles of Exile" – a new short story published in The Walrus (summer 2007).
"Where We Gather at Night" – a new short story published in Maisonneuve (June 2007).
"A Character Walks Off the Page" – an essay in the anthology The First Man in My Life, edited by Sandra Martin (May 2007).
An introduction to Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Classic The Backwoods of Canada, published by Penguin Canada as part of its Black Classics series (July 2006).
