David Demchuk is a Canadian playwright and novelist, [1] who received a longlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination in 2017 for his debut novel The Bone Mother. [2]
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, [2] of Ukrainian descent, [3] he moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1984.
His plays have included Rosalie Sings Alone (1985), [4] If Betty Should Rise (1985), [5] Touch (1986), [6] The World We Live On Turns So That the Sun Appears to Rise (1987), [1] Stay (1990), Mattachine (1991), [7] Thieves in the Night (1992) [8] and The Power of Invention. [9] He received a special Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1986 for Touch. [10] In 1992, Touch was included in Making Out, the first anthology of Canadian plays by gay writers, alongside works by Ken Garnhum, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Harry Rintoul and Colin Thomas. [11]
After the mid-1990s, Demchuk stopped writing new plays, concentrating on his work at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and on writing scripts for radio, film and television. [12] In 1999, he wrote the radio drama Alice in Cyberspace, a contemporary reworking of Alice in Wonderland which aired for ten episodes on CBC Radio's This Morning. [13] His other radio dramas included Alaska, The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Winter Market. In June 2012, he became a contributing writer for the online magazine Torontoist. [14]
The Bone Mother was published in 2017 by ChiZine Publications. [15] It was the first horror-themed novel ever to receive a nomination for the Giller, an award more commonly associated with conventional literary fiction rather than genre fiction. [16] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award. [17] His new novel, RED X, published by Strange Light, an imprint of Penguin Random House, was released on August 31, 2021. [18]
David Demchuk is a Canadian playwright and novelist, [1] who received a longlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination in 2017 for his debut novel The Bone Mother. [2]
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, [2] of Ukrainian descent, [3] he moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1984.
His plays have included Rosalie Sings Alone (1985), [4] If Betty Should Rise (1985), [5] Touch (1986), [6] The World We Live On Turns So That the Sun Appears to Rise (1987), [1] Stay (1990), Mattachine (1991), [7] Thieves in the Night (1992) [8] and The Power of Invention. [9] He received a special Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1986 for Touch. [10] In 1992, Touch was included in Making Out, the first anthology of Canadian plays by gay writers, alongside works by Ken Garnhum, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Harry Rintoul and Colin Thomas. [11]
After the mid-1990s, Demchuk stopped writing new plays, concentrating on his work at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and on writing scripts for radio, film and television. [12] In 1999, he wrote the radio drama Alice in Cyberspace, a contemporary reworking of Alice in Wonderland which aired for ten episodes on CBC Radio's This Morning. [13] His other radio dramas included Alaska, The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Winter Market. In June 2012, he became a contributing writer for the online magazine Torontoist. [14]
The Bone Mother was published in 2017 by ChiZine Publications. [15] It was the first horror-themed novel ever to receive a nomination for the Giller, an award more commonly associated with conventional literary fiction rather than genre fiction. [16] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award. [17] His new novel, RED X, published by Strange Light, an imprint of Penguin Random House, was released on August 31, 2021. [18]