Cordelia Strube

Born and raised in Montreal, Cordelia Strube trained as an actress, moving to Toronto in the ’80s. She turned to writing plays for stage and radio, and in 1987 won the CBC Literary Competition for her play Mortal. She has also won the Toronto Arts Foundation Protege Award and been shortlisted for the Prix Italia, the Books In Canada First Novel Award, the ReLit, and the Governor General’s Award. Her seven novels include Milton’s Elements, Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant and Planet Reese. Lemon, her latest novel, was shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award and longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Click here to listen to Cordelia read from Lemon as a part of the AuthorsAloud project.