Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud, a doctoral student in the Département d'études anglaises, has won the 2010 Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award for works written in English. Johanna's novel, "The Sentimentalists," was selected from a short-list of five and comes with a cash prize of $50 000.

It is published by Gaspareau Press, a small, artisanal house located in Nova Scotia. The Giller Prize has customarily been awarded to well-established writers publishing with large houses, so Johanna's achievement is all the more impressive.

Johanna is writing her doctoral dissertation on " 'The Nothing That Is': Modern American Poetry Through a Photographic Lens" under the supervision of Professor Eric Savoy. Currently, she is spending a research semester in Paris. In 2009, Johanna participated in the joint graduate exchange seminar between our department and the UFR du monde anglophone at the Université de Paris 3 (La Sorbonne Nouvelle). Her current residency allows Johanna to benefit from consultations with one of her Paris instructors, Professor Christine Savinel, a specialist on some of the poets she is studying.

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