Sheila Heti
CBC Books | | Posted: June 27, 2018 7:05 PM | Last Updated: August 24, 2022
Sheila Heti is a noted Toronto-based playwright and author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction whose work has been translated in over a dozen languages.
Her play All Our Happy Days are Stupid appeared on stages in New York and Toronto and her book How Should a Person Be? was a New York Times Notable Book.
Her 2018 novel Motherhood, about a woman debating what motherhood means and whether or not she wants to become one at all, was shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Her 2022 novel, Pure Colour, follows Mira, who leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimension that great loss opens up.
In 2022, she also published her second picture book, A Garden of Creatures (illustrated by Esmé Shapiro), which explores how children can begin to make sense of loss.
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