Agnès Gruda Explained

Agnès Gruda is a Polish-born Canadian journalist and fiction writer. A foreign correspondent for La Presse, she won a National Newspaper Award in 2014 for her reporting on the Salafi movement.^[1]

Her debut short story collection Onze petites trahisons was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards,^[2] and won Quebec's Prix Adrienne-Choquette.^[3] Her second short fiction collection, Mourir, mais pas trop, was published in 2016.^[4]

She is the sister of writer Joanna Gruda and journalist Alexandra Szacka.^[5]

Notes and References

1. "Globe shares top spot at awards". The Globe and Mail, May 31, 0214.
2. "Les prix littéraires du gouverneur général seront décernés en novembre". Le Téléjournal, October 13, 2010.
3. https://revue.leslibraires.ca/articles/litterature-quebecoise/apprivoiser-la-nouvelle-avec-agnes-gruda "Apprivoiser... la nouvelle. Avec Agnès Gruda"
4. https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/466984/agnes-gruda-l-emotion-nue "Agnès Gruda, l’émotion nue"
5. http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/entrevues/201302/22/01-4624427-joanna-gruda-dans-la-peau-de-son-pere.php "Joanna Gruda dans la peau de son père"