Shandi Mitchell

Canadian novelist and filmmaker

Novelist
filmmaker

NationalityCanadianAlma materDalhousie UniversityNotable awardsThomas Head Raddall Award (2010)
Kobzar Literary Award (2012)Websitewww.shandimitchell.com

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 (ISBN 978-0-06-177402-7)
2019 - The Waiting Hours

Film

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

References

^ "28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.
^ Mark Medley (March 1, 2012). "Shandi Mitchell wins Kobzar Literary Award". National Post. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
^ "Shandi Mitchell wins $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. March 2, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
^ "Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell". Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
^ "Shandi Mitchell two-time winner at Atlantic Book Awards | Quill & Quire". Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
^ http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-mitchell-shandi.asp
^ "Shandi Mitchell: About the Author: HarperCollins Publishers". Archived from the original on 2009-08-13.