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Marilyn Bowering is an award-winning novelist, poet and playwright
whose first novel, To All Appearances A Lady,
was a New York Times Notable Book of 1990. Her second novel, Visible
Worlds (1997), was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange
Prize, nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Prize, and awarded the Ethel
Wilson Fiction Prize. Visible Worlds was
praised by The Independent as “a tour de
force … a wonderful piece of storytelling” and
by The New York Times Book Review as “a
vast, sprawling feast of a book.” Marilyn Bowering's
third novel, Cat's Pilgrimage, is a psychological
map in the form of an album of human and animal stories. What
it Takes to Be Human (Penguin Fall 2006) is also a map—of
survival in a world where human qualities are increasingly under
threat. Her new book of poems, Green, is
published by Exile Editions.
Bowering was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Victoria, BC. She has
lived in the United States, Greece, Scotland, Spain and Canada,
and now makes her home in Sooke, British Columbia.
News
- Winner of the 2007 M award for "Favourite Prose Writer."
- To All Appearances A Lady: new edition available from Penguin
Canada.
- What It Takes To Be Human, U.K. edition, August, 2007
- Marilyn Bowering will be the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair
in Creative Writing at New York University in January 2008.
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