Téa Mutonji

Téa Mutonji is a Canadian writer and poet, whose debut short story collection Shut Up You're Pretty was published in 2019.[1]

Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[2] Mutonji came to Canada with her family when she was young and grew up in the Scarborough district of Toronto and in Oshawa.[3] She studied media studies and creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough,[1] and planned to go to law school when she was selected as the first writer to be published by VS. Books, Vivek Shraya's new Arsenal Pulp Press imprint for emerging writers of colour.[4]

Shut Up You're Pretty, a collection of linked short stories about a young girl's coming of age in Scarborough's Galloway neighbourhood, was written in part to counter negative stereotypes of the neighbourhood with a narrative that depicted some of her own more positive experiences of having lived there.[2] The book was published in spring 2019,[5] and was named a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in September.[6] In 2020, the book won the Edmund White Award for debut fiction from Publishing Triangle[7] and the $20,000 Trillium Book Award.[8]

Bibliography
  • Shut up You're Pretty (2019)

References
  1. Sue Carter, "Vivek Shraya's book imprint launches with Scarborough author Tea Mutonji". Toronto Star, April 12, 2019.
  2. "'Galloway was amazing': Toronto author's short-story collection gives readers another view of Scarborough". Metro Morning, April 25, 2019.
  3. Rachna Raj Kaur, "Téa Mutonji adds an incisive coming-of-age tale to Scarborough's literary canon". Now, May 8, 2019.
  4. Sue Carter, "Téa Mutonji selected as first writer under Vivek Shraya's VS. imprint with Arsenal Pulp". Quill & Quire, December 11, 2017.
  5. Sheniz Janmohamed, "Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji and Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas". Quill & Quire, May 2019.
  6. "André Alexis, Michael Crummey shortlisted for $50K Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". CBC Books, September 24, 2019.
  7. Samraweet Yohannes, "Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom among winners of 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQ literature". CBC Books, May 1, 2020.
  8. "2020 Trillium Book Award Winners". Ontario Creates. Retrieved 2020-10-19.


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