Skibsrud, Johanna

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cr: Kristin Skibsrud Ross Johanna Skibsrud (CAN) is the author of The Sentimentalists, which won the 2010 Giller Prize and caused a media sensation. She has also published two books of poetry, Late Nights with Wild Cowboys and I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being. Late Nights with Wild Cowboys was a shortlisted nominee for the Gerald Lampert Award. She presents her new collection of short stories, This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories, which takes the reader from South Dakota to Paris and Japan, discovering the small epiphanies of everyday life and the life-defining moments we don’t realize are important until they are over.

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