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The Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale University announced on March 1 this year's nine prize recipients, who are honored for their literary achievements or their potential. The writers - who hail from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, and Ireland - were chosen in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and drama.
Among the winners is Toronto based Ottawa native Hannah Moscovitch who's work has been produced to great acclaim at Tarragon Theatre. Moscovitch was awarded a prize of $150,000 USD.
Moscovitch has been dubbed "an indie sensation" by Toronto Life Magazine; "the wunderkind of Canadian theatre" by CBC Radio; "irritatingly talented" by Eye Weekly; and the "dark angel of Toronto theatre" by Toronto Star. The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and Now Magazine have all hailed Hannah as "Canada's Hottest Young Playwright".
In 2014, Hannah became the first playwright to win the Trillium Book Award. She's also won the Toronto Critic's Award for Best Canadian Play, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and theSummerWorks Prize for Best Production. Her work has been nominated for the Siminovitch Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Carol Bolt Award, the Toronto Arts Council Foundation Emerging Artist Award, the K.M Hunter Award, and the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Hannah's writing for the stage includes Infinity, What a Young Wife Ought to Know, East of Berlin, This is War, Little One, Other People's Children, The Russian Play, The Huron Bride (a ghost story) and In This World (for young audiences). Hannah's plays have been produced in Australia, Japan, Greece, Austria, Ireland, Britain and the United States, as well as across Canada, including at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Yukon Arts Centre,Banff Centre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Theatre Network, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Firehall Arts Centre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Neptune Theatre, Persephone Theatre,and Alberta Theatre Projects among others.
Hannah's opera with award-winning composer Lembit Beecher,I have no stories to tell you, commissioned by theGotham Chamber Opera, premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in February of 2014.
As part of the 2015/2016 season, Hannah is premiering her new play Bunny at the Stratford Theatre Festival. Hannah is a playwright-in-residence at Canada's leading new works company, Tarragon Theatre.
Photo: Hannah Moscovitch.
2016-03-01
Toronto: Hannah Moscovitch wins $150,000 literary prize