Ann Charney
Ann Charney is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and journalist. Her work has been published in Canada, the US, France, Germany and Italy.
Works
Her most recent novel, Life Class, is a story of displacement and ambition played out in the art circles of Venice, New York and Montreal and is dedicated to her late husband, the artist Melvin Charney who died in September 2012.
Her previous novel is Distantly Related to Freud, the coming of age story of a young girl, who dreams of becoming a writer and a femme fatale.
Her most widely published novel is Dobryd, the story of a child discovering freedom amid the chaos of war’s aftermath.
Charney has been a columnist for Maclean's Magazine, a frequent contributor to Saturday Night, Ms. magazine, and other leading US and Canadian publications.
Awards
She has won Canadian National Magazine Awards both for her fiction and non-fiction, the Canadian Authors' Association Prize for non-fiction, was a finalist for a QSPELL Award for Defiance in their Eyes, and was made an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters.[1]
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- ↑ Curran, Peggy (19 September 2012). "Melvin Charney: A towering figure in Montreal architecture". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 22 September 2012.