Cordelia Strube

Cordelia Strube
Cordelia Strube at the Eden Mills Writers Festival in 2016
Strube at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016
Born1960 (age 65–66)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • playwright
Websitecordeliastrube.weebly.com

Cordelia Strube (born 1960), is a Canadian playwright and novelist.

Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Prize for her first radio play, Mortal, she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, Alex & Zee, in 1994.[1] The novel was a nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.[2]

Her third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, was a nominee for the English-language fiction category of the 1996 Governor General's Awards.[3] Her novel Lemon was longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize[4] and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award.[5] In 2016, she won the Toronto Book Award for On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light.[6]

Works

Novels

  • Alex & Zee (1994)[1]
  • Milton's Elements (1995)[7]
  • Teaching Pigs to Sing (1996)[8]
  • Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant (1997)[9]
  • The Barking Dog (2000)[10]
  • Blind Night (2004)[11]
  • Planet Reese (2007)[12]
  • Lemon (2009)[13]
  • Milosz (2012)[14]
  • On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light (2016)[15]
  • Misconduct of the Heart (2020)[16]
  • At Sea in a Sieve (2026)[17]

Plays

  • Fine (1985)[18]
  • Mortal (1986)[19]
  • Shape (1987)[20]
  • Scar Tissue (1987)[18]
  • Attached (1988)[20]
  • Caught in the Intersection (1988)[18]
  • Marshmallow (1988)[20]
  • Mid-Air (1989)[18]
  • Absconder (1989)[18]
  • On the Beach (1989)[18]
  • Past Due (1989)[18]

References

  1. 1 2 "Inconvenient truths". Quill and Quire. 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  2. ↑ Fertile, Candace (March 4, 1995). "And this one's just too cool for words". Calgary Herald.
  3. ↑ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists". Governor General's Literary Awards. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  4. ↑ "Scotiabank Giller Prize 2010 Announces Its Longlist". Scotiabank. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  5. ↑ "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". The Globe and Mail. 2010-09-20. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  6. ↑ Yeo, Debra Staff (2016-10-11). "Cordelia Strube wins 2016 Toronto Book Award". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  7. ↑ "MILTON'S ELEMENTS". Kirkus Reviews. September 1, 1995.
  8. ↑ Yanofsky, Joel (2004-03-19). "Teaching Pigs to Sing". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  9. ↑ Robertson, Sarah (1997). "Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant". Canadian Book Review Annual Online. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  10. ↑ Weaver, Janice (2004-02-23). "The Barking Dog". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  11. ↑ Cole, Susan G. (2004-12-23). "Top 10 books". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  12. ↑ Donaldson, Emily (2007-05-18). "Planet Reese". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  13. ↑ Robertson, Patricia Dawn (2009-11-29). "Review: Lemon by Cordelia Strube". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  14. ↑ Miller, Jeff (2012-10-23). "Cordelia Strube's misanthropic Milosz". Cult MTL. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  15. ↑ Fertile, Candace (2016-01-26). "On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  16. ↑ "47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020". CBC Books. February 5, 2020.
  17. ↑ Berki, Attila; Drudi, Cassandra (2026-01-14). "2026 Spring Preview: Fiction". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Canlit stars return to York's Canadian Writers in Person series". YFile. 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  19. ↑ Bird, Cherryl (2017-02-05). "Strube's Fiction - Real-Life Issues, Scarborough Locale, Rebelliousness - A Winning Combination for 'On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light' at Toronto Book Awards". Core Magazines. Retrieved 2026-06-14.
  20. 1 2 3 Nothof, Anne (Spring 1990). "Canadian Radio Drama in English: Prick up Your Ears". Theatre Research in Canada. 11 (1). ISSN 1913-9101.
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