Annabel Lyon

Not to be confused with the American ballet dancer Annabelle Lyon.

Annabel Lyon (born 1971)^[1] is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. She has published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and two adult historical novels, The Golden Mean and its sequel, The Sweet Girl.

Annabel Lyon
Born	1971 (age 53–54) Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Novelist and short-story writer
Education	Simon Fraser University (BA) University of British Columbia (MFA)

Life and work

Born in Brampton, Ontario, Lyon grew up in Coquitlam, British Columbia, where she and her family moved when she was a year old.^[1][2] She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.^[1] In addition, she attended the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law for one year.^[1]

Lyon published her first book, Oxygen, a collection of stories, in 2000. The Best Thing for You, a collection of three novellas, followed in 2004 and was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.^[1]

Her first novel, The Golden Mean, which imagines the relationship between Alexander the Great and his teacher, Aristotle, was published in 2009. It held the distinction of being the only book nominated that year for all three of Canada's major fiction prizes: the Scotiabank Giller Prize,^[3] the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction,^[4] and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.^[5] Of the three, she won the Rogers Prize.^[6] The book has been translated into six languages.^[7] A sequel, The Sweet Girl, which explores the life of Aristotle's daughter, Pythias, was published in September 2012.^[8]

Her novel Consent was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020.^[9]

She lives in New Westminster, British Columbia, one of 13 cities in Metro Vancouver.

Awards and honors

Awards for Lyon's writing

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
2005	The Best Thing for You	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize	Shortlist	[1]
2009	The Golden Mean	Giller Prize	Shortlist	[3]
2009	The Golden Mean	Governor General's Award for English-language fiction	Finalist	[4]
2009	The Golden Mean	Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize	Winner	[6]
2010	The Golden Mean	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize	Shortlist
2012	The Sweet Girl	Giller Prize	Longlist	[10]
2020	Consent	Giller Prize	Longlist	[9]
2021	Consent	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize	Shortlist	[11][12]

Bibliography

Short fiction

• Oxygen (2000) McClelland & Stewart
• The Best Thing for You (2004) McClelland & Stewart
• Saturday Night Function (2004) Biblioasis
• Imagining ancient women. 2012. Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series, University of Alberta Press

Novels

• All-Season Edie (2009) Orca Book Publishers ISBN 978-1-55143-713-2
• The Golden Mean (2009) Random House Canada ISBN 978-0-307-35620-8
• Encore Edie (2010) Puffin Canada
• The Sweet Girl (2012) Random House Canada ISBN 978-0-307-35944-5
• Consent (2020)