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Suzette Mayr


Born
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf ...more


Suzette Mayr is the author of five novels including her most recent, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall. Her fourth novel, Monoceros, won the ReLit Award and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, was long-listed for the 2011 Giller Prize, nominated for a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and included on The Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2011.

Her first novel, Moon Honey, was shortlisted for the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book and Best Novel prizes. The Widows, her second novel, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canadian-Caribbean region.

Mayr is past president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta and teaches creative writing in the English ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.53 · 9,578 ratings · 1,386 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors
The Sleeping Car Porter
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So Long Been Dreaming: Post...
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Monoceros
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Dr. Edith Vane and the Hare...
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The Widows
3.60 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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Venous Hum
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Moon Honey (Nunatak Series)
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“I can always recognize the fellow wounded.”
― Suzette Mayr, Monoceros
tags: community, healing, lgbtq, lgbtqia, recovery, support
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“Come out of that closet, baby, the air’s so bright and disco out here.”
― Suzette Mayr, Monoceros
tags: lgbtq, lgbtq-community, lgbtq-literature, lgbtq-support, lgbtqia
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“Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing.”
― Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
tags: desperation, loathing, power, relationships, resentment
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