Zolitude
year-end lists
“unpindownable strangeness”—[The Toronto Star’s Top Ten Books of the Year, 2018]
“frighteningly assured”—[Quill & Quire’s Editors’ Picks for Books of the Year, 2018]
“a pleasing form of disorientation”—[The Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2018]
“razor-sharp and suffused with old-world broodiness”—Myra Bloom [What we liked this year: an end-of-year list by the editors of the Puritan]
“mixing the contemporary with the surreal” [CBC’s 25 best books of Canadian fiction in 2018]
“each line of Zolitude is neon”—Lisa Moore [10 Canadian Authors on the Best Books of 2018, The Walrus]
“she is, as Mike Patton would say, the Real Thing”—Naben Ruthnum [10 Canadian Authors on the Best Books of 2018, The Walrus]
awards
Winner [2018 QWF Concordia University First Book Prize]
Longlisted [2018 Scotiabank Giller]
Finalist [2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction]
Finalist [2018 QWF Paragraphe Books Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction]
Runner-up [2018 Writer’s Union of Canada Danuta Gleed Award]
maintenant en français
Catherine Ego’s French translation of Zolitude was published by Les éditions du Boréal, and was short-listed for le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole in 2020.
[Reviews in Le Devoir (“à la frontière entre paranoïa et lucidité”) and La Recrue (“elle nous présente notre solitude”).]
profile in the Montreal Gazette
“The consensus newcomer of the year.”
a conversation with Catherine Fatima
“Do you ever think about the relationship between therapy and writing?”
a conversation with Jeff VanderMeer
“When you don’t write, why don’t you write?”
[The Rumpus mini-interview #158]
a writer to watch, says the CBC
[CBC’s 2018 writers to watch list]
[Creativity is ‘like a chronic rash’ says Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist Paige Cooper]