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Karen Connelly

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born

Canada

gender

female

website

http://www.karenconnelly.ca/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Karen Connelly was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1969, to a large working class family. One of Canada’s best-known and most successful younger writers, she is the author of nine books of best-selling nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She has read from her work and lectured in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. She has won the Pat Lowther Award for her poetry, the Governor General’s Award for her non-fiction, and Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for New Fiction for her first novel The Lizard Cage. Karen has served on the board member of PEN Canada and has been active in the Free Burma movement. A proficient to fluent speaker of several languages, she divides her time between her home in rural Greece and her home in Toronto, Canada. She is ma...more

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Books by Karen Connelly

Average rating: 4.00 · 664 ratings · 167 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Lizard Cage 4.24 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Burmese Lessons: A true love story 3.35 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Touch The Dragon: A Thai Journal 3.88 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand 3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France and Greece 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Disorder of Love 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	This Brighter Prison: A Book of Journeys 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Border Surrounds Us 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Grace and Poison 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Burmese Lessons: A Love Story 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:

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“Their conversations were often charged with an excitement out of proportion to what they talked about... Their words seemed to glimmer in the air between them, dangerous metallic threads that quickly connected both of them to books and ideas, to language itself. The jailer told Teza about the daring subject matter of the famous writer Ju's recent novel, in which a passionate young man falls in love with an older woman, but the story, as he was telling it, became a metaphor for their own deepening and forbidden association....Teza refused to act like a prisoner, which freed Chit Naing from acting like a jailer.”
― Karen Connelly, The Lizard Cage

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“Each time they meet, they have more to discuss, and so they talk, quietly revealing themselves with and without language, their eyes moving like their hands over the plates of food between them....As he walks away from these visits, his heart almost bursts from happiness and regret. He would give anything to have made different choices. He is making those choices now, but he is forty-six years old. Sometimes he is haunted by the thought that it's all come too late. Other times he thinks, No, what is happening now could never have happened before; I was too young and too fearful. The paradox fascinates him--as the old loyalties desiccate and the danger intensifies, he feels lighter and younger than he has in years.”
― Karen Connelly, The Lizard Cage

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