Sheila Heti
| Sheila Heti | |
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| Born |
25 December 1976 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, National Theatre School of Canada |
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Sheila Heti (/ˈʃiːlə ˈheɪtiː/; born 25 December 1976) is a Canadian writer.
Heti was born in Toronto, Canada. Her parents are Hungarian Jewish immigrants. She studied art history and philosophy at the University of Toronto and playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada. She works as Interviews Editor at The Believer where she also conducts interviews regularly, and she wrote a column on acting for Maisonneuve. Her brother is the comedian David Heti.
Heti's first book, The Middle Stories, a collection of thirty short stories, was published by House of Anansi in Canada in 2001 when she was twenty-four. It was subsequently published by McSweeney's in the United States in 2002. It has been translated into German, French, Spanish and Dutch.
Heti's novella, Ticknor, was released in 2005. The novel's main characters are based on real people: William Hickling Prescott and George Ticknor, although the facts of their lives are altered. It was published by House of Anansi Press in Canada, Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States, and Éditions Phébus in France.
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