Cordelia Strube: one of Heather Mallick's best arts-and-smarts people of 2010!

On Monday, December 27, 2010, Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick announced her list of the 'best arts-and-smarts people' of 2010. Alongside American novelist Joyce Carol Oates and Obama assistant Elizabeth Warren was Lemon author Cordelia Strube.

From The Star:

Cordelia Strube is a terrific novelist, but she's Canadian and acerbic. Sometimes I think we only allow one woman writer to be acidic at any given time. That would be Margaret Atwood. Barbara Gowdy had a brief shot at it but turned sentimental. Strube won the Trillium Prize for her novel, Lemon, about a stroppy teenager. I worry that she will sink from view, so profound is the Canadian need for sugary toppings. Strube doesn't do sugar. She does vinegar. The condiments of the moment need to be sour, and we should honour Strube for her currency.