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Karen Connelly is the author of seven books of poetry and non-fiction. Her first book of prose, Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1993 and was a New York Times Notable Travel Book of the Year. Raised in Calgary, Connelly has lived for extended periods in different parts of Asia and Europe, and now divides her time between rural Greece, travels in Asia and her home in Toronto.
So consummate is Karen Connelly's skill in The Lizard Cage that elements [of the life of a political prisoner in Burma] compel us to keep turning the pages. Her writing is muscular and taut, bringing inmates and warders fully alive. Impressive * New York Times * Expertly constructed, often harrowing thriller * Guardian * A chilling and powerful story * Times Literary Supplement * In a feat of epic vision, Karen Connelly uses her every art to tell the urgent story of what the New York Times calls ""Myanmar, arguably the most repressive regime in the world"". The suspense never relents. Hope is small, but it lives, strengthened by this powerful book. -- Maxine Hong Kingston Connelly reminds me of Latin American writers and poets like Pablo Neruda, who wrote so eloquently about the ills of their homelands. Like these writers, too, Connelly finds beauty and kindness and the potential for redemption in the most unexpected places. * Toronto Globe and Mail *
