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Multi award-winning poet, short story writer, and novelist Ian Williams was named one of the 'ten Canadian writers to watch out for' by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2018. Williams holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing programme at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Reproduction, his debut novel, won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize - the highest accolade for literature in Canada.
Captivating . . . There's a fluidity and zest to Williams's insightful writing . . . A finely balanced novel -- Colin Grant * Guardian * Vastly enjoyable . . . Top-notch comic dialogue makes this light-footed navigation of race and gender politics fizz on the page -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail * [An] extremely funny Canadian debut about the decades-long fallout from an ill-advised hook-up between a young Caribbean student and an older white businessman, each grieving the loss of a parent. Pure pleasure, line after pitch-perfect line * Daily Mail *
