Agnès Gruda

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Agnès Gruda is a Polish-born Canadian journalist and fiction writer. A foreign correspondent for La Presse, she won a National Newspaper Award in 2014 for her reporting on the Salafi movement.[1]

Her debut short story collection Onze petites trahisons was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards,[2] and won Quebec's Prix Adrienne-Choquette.[3] Her second short fiction collection, Mourir, mais pas trop, was published in 2016.[4]

She is the sister of writer Joanna Gruda and journalist Alexandra Szacka.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Globe shares top spot at awards". The Globe and Mail, May 31, 0214.
  2. ^ "Les prix littéraires du gouverneur général seront décernés en novembre". Le Téléjournal, October 13, 2010.
  3. ^ "Apprivoiser... la nouvelle. Avec Agnès Gruda". Les Libraires, April 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Agnès Gruda, l’émotion nue". Le Devoir, April 2, 2016.
  5. ^ "Joanna Gruda dans la peau de son père". La Presse, February 22, 2013.