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).[1] He has won the Bressani Award a total of three times.[2]

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.[3]

Early life and education

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In 1952, Mirolla immigrated with his mother and brother from the town of Jelsi in Italy to Montreal, Canada at the age of four.[2] He moved to Ontario in 1993 and lived in Toronto before moving to Oakville in 2012.[4] Mirolla graduated from McGill University and completed a masters in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.[2]

Works

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Novels

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  • Berlin (2008)[1]
  • 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)[5]

Short fiction

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  • 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

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  • Poems (1973)
  • Interstellar Distances (2009)
  • Light and Time (2010)
  • The House on 14th Avenue (2013)

Plays

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  • Gargoyles
  • Snails
  • A Revised Experiment

References

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  1. ^ a b "Michael Mirolla โ€“ Guernica Editions". guernicaeditions.com. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c ""It's My Identity" - Michael Mirolla talks about his love of literature". Panoram. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  3. ^ "38 books shortlisted for 2021 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, April 19, 2021.
  4. ^ "Oakville author Michael Mirolla talks normal life, abnormal fiction". Inside Halton. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  5. ^ "ยป Torp". quillandquire.com. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
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Bressani Award

Nothing's Place (poetry) by Pasquale Verdicchio Berlin (fiction) by Michael Mirolla Made Up of Arias (short fiction) by Michelle Alfano Finding Rosa (emigration

Guernica Editions

current publishers are Connie McParland (Montreal) and editor in chief Michael Mirolla (Toronto).[when?] Guernica Editions began as a bilingual press and

Italian language in Canada

notable names are novelists Frank G. Paci, Nino Ricci, Caterina Edwards, Michael Mirolla and Darlene Madott. Poets who write in English include Mary di Michele

Association of Italian-Canadian Writers

eds. Giulia De Gasperi, Maria Cristina Seccia, Licia Canton, and Michael Mirolla. Other important publications include: Contrasts: Comparative Essays

Fortner Anderson

Yanofsky (2011). "Enfin Visibles! Quebec's Literary Community". In Michael Mirolla (ed.). Minority Report: An Alternative History of English-language

ReLit Awards

2023-07-08. Qiao, Vicky (2021-05-05). "Cassandra Blanchard, Tracey Waddleton & Michael Blouin win 2020 ReLit Awards". CBC Books. Archived from the original on

David Homel

Fertile, "Rat Palms sticks in the mind". Calgary Herald, April 18, 1992. Michael Mirolla, "Homel can't be faulted for his ambition". Halifax Daily News, October

Bruce Meyer

(with James Deahl, 1st ed.), League of Canadian Poets, 1986 Books by Michael Mirolla, Marty Gervais, Victoria Butler, Antonia Facciponte, Kate Story, Karen