Shandi Mitchell Explained

Shandi Mitchell
Nationality:	Canadian
Alma Mater:	Dalhousie University
Awards:	Thomas Head Raddall Award (2010) Kobzar Literary Award (2012)

Shandi Mitchell is a Canadian novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel Under This Unbroken Sky won a 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other awards. She graduated from Dalhousie University.

Her newest novel, The Waiting Hours, is slated for publication in 2019.^[1]

Awards and honors

• 2012: Kobzar Literary Award, Under This Unbroken Sky^{[2] [3]}
• 2010: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (first novel, Canada and the Caribbean), Under This Unbroken Sky^[4]
• 2010: Thomas Head Raddall Award, Under This Unbroken Sky^[5]
• 2008: Victor Martin-Lynch Staunton Endowment in Media Arts, Canada Council^{[6] [7]}

Works

Literary

• 2011 - Under This Unbroken Sky
• 2019 - The Waiting Hours

Film

• 2002 Baba's House (short)
• 2005 Tell Me (short)
• 2012 The Disappeared

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. https://www.cbc.ca/books/28-works-of-canadian-fiction-to-watch-for-in-spring-2019-1.4982303 "28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019"
2. Web site: Shandi Mitchell wins Kobzar Literary Award . March 1, 2012 . September 12, 2012 . National Post . Mark Medley . dead . https://archive.today/20130129180524/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/03/01/shandi-mitchell-wins-kobzar-literary-award/ . January 29, 2013 .
3. Web site: Shandi Mitchell wins $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award . . March 2, 2012 . October 27, 2012.
4. Web site: Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell . 2013-06-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110914200350/http://www.cookeagency.ca/books/Mitchell-S_Under-This-Unbroken-Sky.htm . 2011-09-14 .
5. Web site: Shandi Mitchell two-time winner at Atlantic Book Awards | Quill & Quire . 2011-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120323150031/http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=11246 . 2012-03-23 .
6. http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-mitchell-shandi.asp
7. Web site: Shandi Mitchell: About the Author: HarperCollins Publishers. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090813230724/http://harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=35473. 2009-08-13.