Jean McNeil, born 1968, is a Canadian fiction and travel author. She is a Reader in Creative Writing and co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia.
She grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. She presently lives in London, England.
Awards and recognition
- Winner, Grand Prize and Adventure Travel category at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Book Awards Book Competition for Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir, 2016.
- Nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir,' (extract from book in progress) 2013.
- Awarded a Canada Council Grant for the Arts, 2013.
- Finalist, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'The Skeleton Coast', Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
- Nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize, USA for 'Ice Diaries', published 2012.
- Winner, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir', Vancouver, Canada, 2012.
- Shortlisted for the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers scheme, 2012.
- Winner, Walkopedia travel writing award, 2011.
- Shortlisted, Metcalfe-Rooke award for an unpublished novel manuscript, for Fire on the Mountain, 2011.
- Awarded British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica, 2005
- Nominated, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, Canada, 2003
- Awarded Canada Council Award for the Arts, 2002.
- Awarded London Arts Board Award for the Arts, 1997.
- Shortlisted, Journey Prize for short fiction (Canada), 1997.
- Winner, Prism International short story competition, 1997.
Bibliography
- Hunting Down Home (UK: Phoenix 1996, US: Milkweed Editions 1999) ISBN 978-1-57131-026-2
- Nights in a Foreign Country (2000) ISBN 1-86159-186-1
- Costa Rica (2001) ISBN 1-85828-136-9
- Private View (2002) ISBN 1-86159-188-8
- The Interpreter of Silences (2006) ISBN 1-55278-563-7
- The Ice Lovers (2009) ISBN 978-1-55278-802-8
- Night Orders: Poems from Antarctica and the Arctic (2011) ISBN 978-1-906613-39-6
- Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir (2016) ISBN 978-1-77041-318-4
- The Dhow House (2016) ISBN 978-1785079443
- Fire on the Mountain (2018) ISBN 978-1785078996
References
- "Jean McNeil". University of East Anglia. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- "Biography". Jean McNeil. Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
Further reading
- Mary Conde: Old Europe and New World: A reading of Catherine Bush's "The Rules of Engagement" and Jean McNeil's "Private View," in Narratives of crisis – crisis of narrative, Martin Kuester, ed., with Françoise LeJeune, Anca-Raluca Radu, Charlotte Sturgess. Wißner, Augsburg 2012 ISBN 9783896398499 (Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures, 3) pp. 67 – 76
External links
- Official website
- Jean McNeil at uea.ac.uk
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