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Elizabeth Hay was born in 1951 in Owen Sound, Ontario. She studied at Victoria College and worked for CBC radio in Yellowknife, Winnipeg, and Toronto. Hay lives in Ottawa.

Books by Elizabeth Hay

	1989 Crossing the Snow Line (short stories)
	1992 The Only Snow in Havana (nonfiction)
	1993 Captivity Tales (nonfiction) Canadians in New York
	1997 Small Change (short stories)
	2000 A Student of Weather (novel)
	2003 Garbo Laughs (novel)
	2007 Late Nights on Air (novel)
	2011 Alone in the Classroom
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Awards

• Giller Prize
  • 2000 – A Student of Weather – Shortlisted
  • 2007 – Late Nights on Air – Winner

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1997 – Small Change – Shortlisted
  • 2003 – Garbo Laughs – Shortlisted

• Marian Engel Award
  • 2001 – Winner

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 1997 – Small Change – Shortlisted

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Added 09 April 2006.
Updated 07 January 2012.