Tamas Dobozy

Tamas Dobozy is a Canadian writer and professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.^[1]

Early life

Dobozy was born in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.^[2] Between the ages of 3 and 18 he lived in Powell River, British Columbia, and subsequently in Victoria, Montreal, Budapest, Vancouver, Toronto, and St. John's. He received his BA/BFA in English/Creative Writing from The University of Victoria, his MA in English from Concordia University, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia.^[2]

Career

Dobozy taught at Memorial University^[2] and currently teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario.^[1]

Awards and honors

• 1995 sub-Terrain Short Fiction Contest Winner for "Like A Salmon Getting Me Down"
• 2003 Danuta Gleed Award shortlist for When X Equals Marylou^[3]
• 2011 O Henry Award for "The Restoration of the Villa Where Tíbor Kálmán Once Lived"
• 2012 Camera Obscura Editors' Award for Outstanding Fiction for "The Selected Mugshots of Famous Hungarian Assassins"
• 2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize winner for Siege 13^[4]
• 2012 Governor General's Awards shortlist for Siege 13^[5]
• 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist for Siege 13^[6]
• 2014 National Magazine Awards, Gold Medal for Fiction for "Krasnagorsk-2" published in The New Quarterly

Bibliography

• When X Equals Marylou (Arsenal Pulp, 2002)
• Last Notes and Other Stories (HarperCollins Canada/Arcade, 2005)
• Siege 13: Stories (Thomas Allen/Milkweed, 2012)
• 5 Mishaps (School Gallery, 2021)
• Ghost Geographies: Fictions (New Star Books, 2021)

References