Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb has a BA in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Toronto, and she completed her PhD in social anthropology at Oxford University in 1997. She spent two years at the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral research fellow before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of four novels: Mouthing the Words (1999), The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life (2002), Sweetness in the Belly (2005) and The Beauty of Humanity Movement (2011), and a memoir, This Is Happy (2016), as well as numerous short stories, articles and reviews. She was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize in 2016, she won the Trillium Book Award in 2006, was a Giller Prize nominee in 2005, the winner of the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000 and the recipient of the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction in 2001. Her books have been published in 18 countries and translated into 14 languages, and she was named by the jury of the prestigious Orange Prize as one of 21 writers to watch in the new century. She is currently the June Callwood Professor in Social Justice at Victoria College, University of Toronto.