![]() He died suddenly when she was in high school. Her dad was a fur cutter on Spadina Avenue. My mother was born into a house on Nassau Street in Kensington Market in Toronto and grew up downtown. Her parents were Jewish immigrants, who came in the 1920s. My mother didn't get to go to university. ![]() "In a funny way, it came from thinking about my mother. All the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award finalistsįagan talked to CBC Books about how he wrote his novel, The Student.The winners of the 2019 Governor General Literary Awards will be announced on Oct. 29. The Studentis nominated for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.įagan is also nominated in the Governor General's Literary award for children's literature - illustration category for the picture book King Mouse, which is illustrated by Dena Seiferling. Nearly five decades later, Miriam helps with her son's wedding preparations and finds herself thinking about the past. She finds solace in an affair with a free-spirited American student. ![]() ![]() Miriam is crushed when a favourite English professor tells her that women have no place in higher education. The Studentby Cary Fagan opens in the late 1950s as a University of Toronto student named Miriam enters her final year with dreams of going to graduate school. ![]()
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