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Linda Svendsen (born Vancouver, 1954) is a Canadian screenwriter and author.
Professor. email linda.svendsen@ubc.ca. launch www.lindasvendsen.ca. Linda Svendsen on Twitter. Research Area. Fiction | Writing for Television. About. Fiction. Linda’s novel, Sussex Drive, was published by Random House Canada in 2012 and was a CBC Bookie Awards nominee in the comedy category.
Aug 7, 2012 · The Astonishing Debut of Linda Svendsen. Only two BC storytellers – William Gibson with Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland with Generation X – have received as much praise for their first books of fiction as Linda Svendsen with Marine Life (HC). “An astonishing debut, order ” said The New York Times. “Her sentences adopted us ...
Feb 12, 2013 · Linda Svendsen: Novelist and Screenwriter. Linda Svendsen's linked collection, Marine Life, was published in Canada, the United States and Germany and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Saturday Night, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best Canadian Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.
Given that Svendsen revised the stories before their publication as Marine Life, I assume their arrangement and interrelationships to be part of a deliberate rhetorical strategy. 3 Various techniques disrupt narrative unity in the collection.
Born in Vancouver in 1954, Linda Svendsen has lived in New York and published fiction in the The Atlantic, Saturday Night, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best Canadian Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. She won first prize in the 1980 American Short Story Contest.
Author Linda Svendsen. Share Save. Add to Goodreads Look Inside. A startingly funny and deeply satisfying satirical novel that makes the Canadian political scene accessible from the female perspective, behind the scenes at the top of the hill.
