Pasha Malla

Pasha Malla
Born	Pasha Malla St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2000s-present
Notable works	The Withdrawal Method, People Park

Pasha Malla is a Canadian author.

He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and raised in London, Ontario. He attended Concordia University in Montreal as a graduate student.^[1] During his days in London, Ont. Pasha attended Sir Frederick Banting S.S, where he played basketball and was a founding member of the Backyard Soccer League.

His debut book, The Withdrawal Method, a collection of short stories, won the Trillium Book Award and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award,^[1] as well as being shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.^[2] One of his short stories, "Filmsong", won an Arthur Ellis Award^[1] while another was published on Joyland: A hub for short fiction.

Later that year, Snare Books released All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts, a collection of poetry. His first novel, People Park, was published in 2012.^[3] His second novel, Fugue States, was published in 2017. Malla's third novel, Kill the Mall, was published in 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2022 Hamilton Literary Awards.^[4][5]

Pasha is an infrequent contributor to The Walrus.

Books

• 2008: The Withdrawal Method, House of Anansi, ISBN 978-0-88784-215-3
• 2008: All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts, Snare Books, ISBN 978-0-9739438-8-7
• 2012: People Park
• 2015: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The poetry of sportstalk, Featherproof Books ISBN 978-1-94388-803-0
• 2018: Fugue States, Vintage Canada ISBN 978-0-34581-134-9
• 2020: Kill the Mall^[6]

References