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Heather O'Neill

Heather O’Neill is a Canadian novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter and essayist. Lullabies For Little Criminals, her debut novel, was published in 2006 to international critical acclaim and won Canada Reads. It was shortlisted for both the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has since published the novel The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and the short story collection Daydreams Of Angels, both of which were shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in consecutive years. The collection was also shortlisted for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Montreal, O’Neill lives there today with her daughter.

Books by Heather O'Neill

When We Lost Our Heads

A Novel

by (author) Heather O'Neill

Life in the Court of Matane

Second edition. With a foreword by Heather O'Neill

by (author) Eric Dupont
translated by Peter McCambridge
introduction by Heather O'Neill

Lonely Hearts Hotel

A Novel

by (author) Heather O'Neill

Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada

edited by Tessa McWatt, Rabindranath Maharaj & Dionne Brand
contributions by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M.G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Wisdom in Nonsense

Invaluable Lessons from My Father

by (author) Heather O'Neill
introduction by Kit Dobson

The Lonely Hearts Hotel

A Novel

by (author) Heather O'Neill

Lullabies for Little Criminals

A Novel

by (author) Heather O'Neill

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

by (author) Heather O'Neill

Daydreams Of Angels

by (author) Heather O'Neill

The Great Unexpected

by (author) Sharon Creech
read by Heather O'Neill & Erin Moon

The Journey Prize Stories 20

The Best of Canada's New Writers

by (author) Various
edited by Lynn Coady, Heather O'Neill & Neil Smith

two eyes are you sleeping

by (author) Heather O'Neill