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lG-WAllzitltKHZHIONlCLE-Wodnenday. October ID. 2012 Sharing a little kiSIIlBt a , r o 1100 Waterloo authors make the shortlist for Governor Generals Literary Award BVBOIVIMNAC ing to local troubadour Danny words in when she thought it 7_7___ Chronicle Staff Michel's new album. Black Birds would be much more liberating are Dancing for Me. exploring the story as fiction and hey share a lot in common. "I was listening to the music creating the character oflullet. I including having to snatch and had the ear plugs in. but i “Because it is based on some of £ moments from their busy could still see the inbox. and it just my own experiences. 1 found l had " family lives trying to raise four kids started to fill up around 10 to go to deep places to get it out," i apiece to find the time to write. o'clock," said Snyder. "l was like, said Snyder. “it took me a number ' 175335}; t, - Their kids played on the same '()h my goodness, i think someâ€" of years to go to the places I needâ€" ' i soccer team. They were even thing is happening" ed to go to.” scheduled to do public readings of Everyone imagines you get a Nicaragua is where the story 1. their latest books Oct. 2 to launch special phone call. said Snyder. gets its start when the 10-year-old “v the inaugural Wild Writers Literary who laughed as she imagined Gov- luliet moves to the Central Ameri- . Festival held by local literary mag- ernor General David lohnston can country with her family. The azine The New Quarterly. dropping her a line. novel is made up of linked short h But it was the news that Water- But the formal announcement stories. which could each stand on C loo writers Carrie Snyder and instead camebymail. its own, and explores luliet‘s par- Tamas Dobozy shared earlier that ‘l found that kind of funny,” ent's involvement in a peace day that suggests there was some said Snyder. who met up with the activist organization and the dam » s ..._ kismet at work as they were both Chronicle at Words Worth Books gers that entailed, with marital dis- _‘ ‘ -, named finalists of the 2012 Gover- while shopping for the books of cord hanging in the background. ' A (2. not Generals Literary Awards the other nominees. "Who sends luliet's parents, involved in their i “a ‘ Snyder's The luliet Stories and letters these day?" ‘ own martial struggles and the very " A, Dobozy's Siege 13 were two of the real dangers they face in their THE "J“ET w" five finalists announced in the work, do little to shield luliet and ' STQR|E ' English fiction category by The her two brothers from the world _ S Canadian Council of Arts, beating ~ around them. When luliet's brother ‘ out a field df more than 1,700 sub- ' is diagnosed with cancer, the fami- . ., missions. ly moves to a farmhouse in south- ' ”file M . . “it feels totally awesome." said ,‘ em Ontario that seems foreign and ' ' ’ Dobozy, who took seven years to s“ 3 g restrictive compared to the earlier Carrie Snyder, author of the Juliet Stories, joined WLU's Tania Dobozy as get Siege 13 published after ‘ ,. freedom the familyexperienced. twoofthefivenominees forthe2012 Governor General's Literary Awards. numerous rejections before finally The family begins to unravel, “mm‘m getting picked up by Thomas Allen g. and the pain of the family break- sieges had on the survivors. His As for how he did it balancing a Publishers. “l was just happy to down is something luliet carries stories speak ofwar. family, loyalty, busy family life, academia and finally get a publisher, never mind into her own adulthood and par- love and redemption in an emo- even serving as acting Dean last all the rest of this.~ enting tional and intelligent way. year. he quoted Spanish writer it is the last of the three major “i think the layers and layers of “i just thought this book need- Camilo lose Oela. Canadian literary awards work that went in there connects ed to be published," said Dobozy, “He said to be a writer you have announced in the fall including Tarn-Dobozy with the audience,“ said Snyder, about all the rejection the book to be a 'ragpicker of time," said the Rogers Writers" Trust Fiction who took six years to finish The faced to get to this day. “I've been Dobozy. "And i think that's proba- Prine and the Giller Prize. Dobozy How the stay-atâ€"home mother luliet Stories. "That was after through this long enough that l bly the best phrase for it. had already been shonlisted for of four children aged ll and under many, many incarnations of the have a thick skin to rejection, or “You really are a ragpicker of the Rogers Writers“ Trust award. finds the time to write may be book." maybe it'sjustthickened. time, you can't waste any of it. The while Snyder admits it was a nerv- another great mystery. But she said Dobozy had an equally trying “Or maybe it was just blind faith minute you have an opening of a ous morning while she wondered writing is her respite from the experience getting publishers to that keptmegoing,‘ half an hour you can work on ifshemadethe final cut. hurIy-burly of daily life. and she back a book he believed in, and Dobozy thinks the awards are some sentences and type out In fact. she had resigned herself shares those challenges on her tells the story ofhis parent's native validation of that faith, with only another paragraph. That's more or to the disappointment of not get- blog with other writers and readers Hungary after the Red Army three writers in all of Canada get- less how l've been doing it the last ting the coveted spot despite get- as an outlet for her creative entered Budapest in December of tingmultiple nodsthisawarris aea- little while." ting some great reviews for her process. 1994. The Wilfrid lander Unlveni- son. “I think validation is the right The Governor General's Literary book. The luliet Stories. released in The book itself started out as a ty professor of engllah and film word.” he said. Award will be announced at a cere- February. On her popular blog, bit of a memoir for Snyder, when studies spent a lot of time in Hun- He's hoping that it draws more mony in Montreal Nov. 13. 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