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Carrie Snyder

Biography

Carrie Snyder

Carrie Snyder’s GIRL RUNNER was short-listed for the 2014 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her previous book, THE JULIET STORIES, was a finalist for the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award and named one of the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of the Year. Her first book, the short story collection HAIR HAT, was short-listed for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction.

Carrie Snyder

Books by Carrie Snyder

by Carrie Snyder - Fiction

As a young runner, Aganetha Smart defied everyone’s expectations to win a gold medal for Canada in the 1928 Olympics. It was a revolutionary victory, because this was the first Games in which women could compete in track events --- and they did so despite opposition. But now Aganetha is in a nursing home, and nobody realizes that the frail centenarian was once a bold pioneer. When two young strangers appear asking to interview Aganetha for their film about female athletes, she readily agrees.