Catherine Mavrikakis Explained

Catherine Mavrikakis (born January 7, 1961) is a Canadian academic and writer living in Quebec.

The daughter of a Greek father who grew up in Algeria and a French mother, she was born in Chicago and grew up in Anjou, Montréal-Nord, St. Leonard, in France and in the United States. She settled in Montreal in 1979.^[1] From 1993 to 2003, she taught at Concordia University. In 2003, she joined the department of French language literature at the Université de Montréal.^[2]

The 2015 virtual reality work The Unknown Photographer incorporated text by Mavrikakis.^{[3] [4]}

Selected works

• Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques, novel (2000)
• Ça va aller, novel (2002)
• Fleurs de crachat, novel (2005), translated into English by Nathanaël as Flowers of Spit (2011) which was shortlisted for a ReLit Award^[5]
• Condamner à mort. Le meurtre et la loi à l'écran, essay (2005), received the Prix Victor-Barbeau and was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit in 2006^[6]
• Le ciel de Bay City, novel (2008), received the,^[2] the and the Prix littéraire des collégiens^[7]
• Omaha Beach, play (2008), shortlisted for a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit in 2008^[8]
• Les derniers jours de Smokey Nelson, novel (2011), shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction^[9]

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Catherine Mavrikakis . Éditions Héliotrope . fr . 2016-02-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170108173718/http://www.editionsheliotrope.com/catherinemavrikakis/a-propos/ . 2017-01-08 . dead .
2. Web site: La professeure Catherine Mavrikakis lauréate du Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2008 . Université de Montréal . fr .
3. Web site: More NFB productions and co-productions featured at RIDM 2015 . Government of Canada . November 4, 2015.
4. News: Experience Designing a Surrealist Museum: Loïc Suty on The Unknown Photographer. Wissot. Lauren. 31 January 2016. Filmmaker. 17 February 2016.
5. Web site: The ReLit Awards/ Ideas, Not Money.
6. Web site: Condamner à mort . Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal . fr.
7. Web site: Le ciel de Bay City . Éditions Héliotrope . fr.
8. News: Governor General's Literary Award Short List for Drama, Rawi Hage's Cockroach for Fiction . October 2, 2008 . Montreal Gazette.
9. Web site: Read ggreat books: Canada Council for the Arts announces the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award finalists . Canada Council for the Arts . October 2, 2012.