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Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her work, which includes Capital of Dreams, When We Lost Our Heads, Lullabies for Little CriminalsThe Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels, has been shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize in two consecutive years, and has won CBC Canada Reads, the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, O’Neill lives there today with her daughter Arizona, with whom she co-created her most recent book Valentine in Montreal, along with The O’Neill Reads Instagram account and beloved Wordfest Imaginairium Talk Show.

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