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Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto.  She has B.A. in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Toronto, completed her Ph.D. in social anthropology at Oxford University in 1997, for which she conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia. Camilla spent two years at the University of Toronto as a post-doctoral research fellow before becoming a full-time writer.

She is the author of three novels, numerous short stories, articles and reviews and the winner of the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000 and the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction in 2001.  Her books have been published in 17 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.

Camilla currently lives in Toronto, where she serves as Vice President of PEN Canada and is currently at work on a new novel.  She will be Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto in 2006.