Michael Mirolla
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Michael Mirolla is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright who lives in Oakville, Ontario. Mirolla was awarded the Bressani Award for his novel Berlin in 2010 (Leapfrog Press).{{cite web|url=http://www.guernicaeditions.com/author/760|title=Michael Mirolla – Guernica Editions|work=guernicaeditions.com|accessdate=24 July 2016}} He has won the Bressani Award a total of three times.
In both 2009 and 2014, Mirolla served as a finalist judge for the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest, selecting Vickie Weaver's Billie Girl in 2009 and Gregory Hill's The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles in 2014.
His short story collection Paradise Island and Other Galaxies was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2021.[https://www.cbc.ca/books/38-books-shortlisted-for-2021-relit-awards-1.5993333 "38 books shortlisted for 2021 ReLit Awards"]. CBC Books, April 19, 2021.
Early life and education
In 1952, Mirolla immigrated with his mother and brother from the town of Jelsi in Italy to Montreal, Canada at the age of four.{{cite web|url=http://www.panoramitalia.com/en/arts-culture/theatre/it-s-identity-michael-mirolla-talks-love-literature/4237/|title="It's My Identity" - Michael Mirolla talks about his love of literature|publisher=Panoram|accessdate=4 October 2017}} He moved to Ontario in 1993 and lived in Toronto before moving to Oakville in 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.insidehalton.com/whatson-story/8739114-oakville-author-michael-mirolla-talks-normal-life-abnormal-fiction/|title=Oakville author Michael Mirolla talks normal life, abnormal fiction
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|publisher=Inside Halton|accessdate=13 May 2019}} Mirolla graduated from McGill University and completed a masters in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
Works
= Novels =
- Berlin (2008)
- The Facility (2010)
- The Ballad of Martin B. a novella (2011)
- The Giulio Metaphysics III (2013)
- Torp: the landlord, the husband, the wife and the lover (2016){{cite web|url=http://www.quillandquire.com/review/torp/|title=» Torp|work=quillandquire.com|date=17 May 2016 |accessdate=24 July 2016}}
= Short fiction =
- The Formal Logic of Emotion (1992)
- Hothouse Loves & Other Tales (2007)
- Lessons in Relationship Dyads (2015)
- The Photographer in Search of Death (2017)
- Paradise Island and Other Galaxies (2020)
= Poetry =
- Poems (1973)
- Interstellar Distances (2009)
- Light and Time (2010)
- The House on 14th Avenue (2013)
= Plays =
- Gargoyles
- Snails
- A Revised Experiment
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.michaelmirolla.com}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120127151605/http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/ten_questions_with_michael_mirolla Interview]
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