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Matt Cohen


Born
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
December 30, 1942

Died
December 02, 1999


Matt Cohen studied political economy at the University of Toronto, and taught political philosophy and religion at McMaster University in the late 1960s before publishing his first novel, Korsoniloff, in 1969.

His greatest popular success as a writer was his final novel, Elizabeth and After, which won the 1999 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction only a few weeks before his death. He had been nominated twice previously, but had not won, in 1979 for The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone and in 1997 for Last Seen.

A founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada, he served on the executive board for many years and as president in 1986. During his presidency the Writer's Union was finally able to persuade the government of ...more

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Elizabeth and After
3.40 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions
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The Spanish Doctor
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Last Seen
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The Bookseller
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The Sweet Second Summer of ...
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Emotional Arithmetic
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Typing
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The Disinherited
3.39 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1974 — 9 editions
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Getting Lucky
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“If all knowledge is self knowledge, you don't know shit.”
― Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After
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