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Emma Hooper is a Canadian writer.[1] She is most notable for her 2018 novel Our Homesick Songs, which was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[2] Born and raised in Alberta, she moved to England in 2004 after completing her B.A. in music and writing at the University of Alberta.[1] She completed an M.A. in creative writing at Bath Spa University before undertaking a Ph.D. in creative and critical writing at the University of East Anglia, which she completed in 2010.[3] She subsequently taught at Bath Spa University. Her debut novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, was published in 2015,[4] and was a shortlisted finalist for the amazon.ca First Novel Award.[5] Our Homesick Songs followed in 2018.[6]
We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.[7]
She teaches regularly for Arvon, and runs writing courses annually in Spain with the author Samantha Harvey.[8]
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- Etta and Otto and Russell and James (2015)
- Our Homesick Songs (2018)
- We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky (2022)
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