Background
York was born to Australian immigrant parents in Athabasca, Alberta in 1970.
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Alissa York
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York"s family moved to Victoria in 1977 and after graduating high school, she moved to Montreal where she studied English at McGill University.
Career
She lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Toronto with her writer/filmmaker/publisher husband Clive Holden. Her parents were English teachers and encouraged York in her passion of reading and writing. Before publishing her first short story in 1995, York worked various jobs including acting in local theatre productions, waitressing, working at a bookstore and arranging flowers.
Mercy Effigy Fauna.
Achievements
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York is best known for her 2007 Random House Canada novel Effigy, which was nominated in 2007 for one of Canada"s most important prizes for literature and fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. York has written three novels: Mercy, Effigy and Fauna and a book of short stories, Any Given Power, which won the Journey Prize in 1999 for the short story The Back of the Bear"s Mouth. Her work was acknowledged internationally when Effigy was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003.
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Awards
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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Journey Prize; Scotiabank Giller Prize
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world.; The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.; The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world.; The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.; The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.