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Elizabeth Grace Hay〔(Elizabeth Grace Hay ) ''The Peerage'', retrieved 11/17/2012〕 (born October 22, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.〔(Elizabeth Hay's ) entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia〕 Her novel ''A Student of Weather'' (2000) was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award.〔W. H. New, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 477.〕 She has been a nominee for the Governor General's Award twice, for ''Small Change'' in 1997 and for ''Garbo Laughs'' in 2003, and won the Giller Prize for her 2007 novel ''Late Nights on Air''. In 2002, she received the Marian Engel Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established female writer for her body of work — including novels, short fiction, and creative non-fiction. ==Life== Hay was born on October 22, 1951 in Owen Sound, Ontario.〔(Elizabeth Hay's web site )〕 She is the daughter of a high school principal and a painter. She spent a year in England when she was fourteen, then returned to Canada to attend the University of Toronto. In January, 1972, she quit university before finishing and travelled out west by train.〔(January Magazine, June 2000 )〕 In 1974 she moved to Yellowknife, NWT. She worked for ten years as a CBC radio broadcaster in Yellowknife, Winnipeg and Toronto and then moved to Mexico, where she freelanced. In 1986 she moved to New York City, and then returned to Canada in 1992 with her family. She lives in Ottawa with her husband Mark. She has two children: a son, Ben, and a daughter, Sochi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Hay (novelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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