Pamela Korgemagi is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel The Hunter and the Old Woman was published in 2021. A graduate of the creative writing program at York University, she lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.
The novel centres on the "Old Woman", a wild cougar who is being hunted by Joseph, a man from the nearby town who has been obsessed with hunting down the old woman since childhood, and alternates between both the hunter's and the cougar's perspectives.
The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Trillium Book Award for English Prose in 2022. La Promesse du chasseur, a French translation by Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba, was published in 2023.
References
- Deborah Dundas, "‘The Hunter and the Old Woman’ is the compelling story of a cougar and our relationship with the natural world". Toronto Star, August 6, 2021.
- Robert Lee Brewer, "Pamela Korgemagi: On Trusting the Editorial Process". Writer's Digest, August 5, 2021.
- Olivia Pellegrino, "Animals Within and Among". Canadian Literature, June 30, 2022.
- Anna Maxymiw, "The Hunter and the Old Woman, by Pamela Korgemagi". Quill & Quire, July 2021.
- Sadaf Ahsan, "Gothic stories, genre-defying memoirs among Trillium Book Award finalists" Archived 2022-06-18 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, May 10, 2022.
- Julie Roy, "Les meilleurs livres à lire en juin 2023". L'actualité, May 31, 2023.
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