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Gail Scott

Montréal-based writer Gail Scott, born in 1945, grew up in a bilingual rural community in Eastern Ontario. She studied English and French literature before beginning her writing career as a journalist in 1967. During this time, she edited and co-founded multiple political and cultural small press publications; she subsequently taught journalism at Concordia University from 1980–1991. She has written four novels (Heroine, 1987 ¹ 1 Scott, Gail. Heroine. Coach House, 1987. ; Main Brides, 1993 ² 2 Scott, Gail. Main Brides: Against Ochre Pediment and Aztec Sky. Coach House, 1993 .; My Paris, 1999 ³ 3 Scott, Gail. My Paris: A Novel. Mercury, 1999. ; The Obituary, 2010 ⁴ 4 Scott, Gail. The Obituary. Coach House, 2010. ), the last of which was a finalist for Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. She is also the author of a short story collection, two essay collections, and four English translations of French-Québécois novels, one of which (The Sailor’s Disquiet, 2000 ⁵ 5 Delisle, Michael. The Sailor’s Disquiet. Translated by Gail Scott, Mercury, 2000. ) was shortlisted for the 2001 Governor General’s Literary Awards. She co-authored La Théorie, un dimanche (1988) ⁶ 6 Bersianik, Louky, et al. La théorie, un dimanche. Les Éditions du remue-ménage, 1988. , a fiction/théorie essay collection, and co-edited Biting the Error (2004) ⁷ 7 Burger, Mary, et al., editors. Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Coach House, 2004. , a New Narrative anthology. ⁸ 8 Moyes, Lianne, editor. “Brief Biography of Gail Scott.” Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works, Guernica, 2002, pp. 231–234.

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Experimental essays, Feminist, queer, & minority identity, Language & translation, Montréal, Québec & Canada, Writing theory & praxis

• 1 Scott, Gail. Heroine. Coach House, 1987.
• 2 Scott, Gail. Main Brides: Against Ochre Pediment and Aztec Sky. Coach House, 1993
• 3 Scott, Gail. My Paris: A Novel. Mercury, 1999.
• 4 Scott, Gail. The Obituary. Coach House, 2010.
• 5 Delisle, Michael. The Sailor’s Disquiet. Translated by Gail Scott, Mercury, 2000.
• 6 Bersianik, Louky, et al. La théorie, un dimanche. Les Éditions du remue-ménage, 1988.
• 7 Burger, Mary, et al., editors. Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Coach House, 2004.
• 8 Moyes, Lianne, editor. “Brief Biography of Gail Scott.” Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works, Guernica, 2002, pp. 231–234.