Pamela Korgemagi is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel The Hunter and the Old Woman was published in 2021.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. A graduate of the creative writing program at York University, she lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.Robert Lee Brewer, "Pamela Korgemagi: On Trusting the Editorial Process". Writer's Digest, August 5, 2021.
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,Olivia Pellegrino, "Animals Within and Among". Canadian Literature, June 30, 2022. and alternates between both the hunter's and the cougar's perspectives.Anna Maxymiw, "The Hunter and the Old Woman, by Pamela Korgemagi". Quill & Quire, July 2021.
The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Trillium Book Award for English Prose in 2022.Sadaf Ahsan, "Gothic stories, genre-defying memoirs among Trillium Book Award finalists" . Toronto Star, May 10, 2022. La Promesse du chasseur, a French translation by Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba, was published in 2023.Julie Roy, "Les meilleurs livres à lire en juin 2023". L'actualité, May 31, 2023.
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