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Cordelia Strube

Cordelia Strube (born 1960), is a Canadian playwright and novelist.

Cordelia Strube
Cordelia Strube at the Eden Mills Writers Festival in 2016
Strube at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016
Born1960 (age 65–66)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • playwright
Website
cordeliastrube.weebly.com

Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Prize for her first radio play, Mortal, she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, Alex & Zee, in 1994.[1] The novel was a nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.[2]

Her third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, was a nominee for the English-language fiction category of the 1996 Governor General's Awards.[3] Her novel Lemon was longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize[4] and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award.[5] In 2016, she won the Toronto Book Award for On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light.[6]

Works

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Novels

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  • Alex & Zee (1994)[1]
  • Milton's Elements (1995)[7]
  • Teaching Pigs to Sing (1996)[8]
  • Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant (1997)[9]
  • The Barking Dog (2000)[10]
  • Blind Night (2004)[11]
  • Planet Reese (2007)[12]
  • Lemon (2009)[13]
  • Milosz (2012)[14]
  • On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light (2016)[15]
  • Misconduct of the Heart (2020)[16]
  • At Sea in a Sieve (2026)[17]

Plays

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  • Fine (1985)[18]
  • Mortal (1986)[19]
  • Shape (1987)[20]
  • Scar Tissue (1987)[18]
  • Attached (1988)[20]
  • Caught in the Intersection (1988)[18]
  • Marshmallow (1988)[20]
  • Mid-Air (1989)[18]
  • Absconder (1989)[18]
  • On the Beach (1989)[18]
  • Past Due (1989)[18]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Inconvenient truths". Quill and Quire. 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  2. ↑ Fertile, Candace (March 4, 1995). "And this one's just too cool for words". Calgary Herald.
  3. ↑ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists". Governor General's Literary Awards. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  4. ↑ "Scotiabank Giller Prize 2010 Announces Its Longlist". Scotiabank. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  5. ↑ "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". The Globe and Mail. 2010-09-20. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  6. ↑ Yeo, Debra Staff (2016-10-11). "Cordelia Strube wins 2016 Toronto Book Award". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  7. ↑ "MILTON'S ELEMENTS". Kirkus Reviews. September 1, 1995.
  8. ↑ Yanofsky, Joel (2004-03-19). "Teaching Pigs to Sing". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  9. ↑ Robertson, Sarah (1997). "Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant". Canadian Book Review Annual Online. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  10. ↑ Weaver, Janice (2004-02-23). "The Barking Dog". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  11. ↑ Cole, Susan G. (2004-12-23). "Top 10 books". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  12. ↑ Donaldson, Emily (2007-05-18). "Planet Reese". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  13. ↑ Robertson, Patricia Dawn (2009-11-29). "Review: Lemon by Cordelia Strube". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  14. ↑ Miller, Jeff (2012-10-23). "Cordelia Strube's misanthropic Milosz". Cult MTL. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  15. ↑ Fertile, Candace (2016-01-26). "On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  16. ↑ "47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020". CBC Books. February 5, 2020.
  17. ↑ Berki, Attila; Drudi, Cassandra (2026-01-14). "2026 Spring Preview: Fiction". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Canlit stars return to York's Canadian Writers in Person series". YFile. 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  19. ↑ Bird, Cherryl (2017-02-05). "Strube's Fiction - Real-Life Issues, Scarborough Locale, Rebelliousness - A Winning Combination for 'On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light' at Toronto Book Awards". Core Magazines. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  20. 1 2 3 Nothof, Anne (Spring 1990). "Canadian Radio Drama in English: Prick up Your Ears". Theatre Research in Canada. 11 (1). ISSN 1913-9101.
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