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Catherine Hernandez is a Canadian writer,[1] whose debut novel Scarborough was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Toronto Book Awards[2] and the 2018 Edmund White Award.[3]

She has also written the plays The Femme Playlist, Singkil, Eating with Lola, Kilt Pins and Future Folk, and the children's book M for Mustache: A Pride ABC.[4] She has been the artistic director of the Sulong and b_current theatre companies in Toronto.[5]

Of mixed Filipino, Chinese, Spanish and Indian descent, she identifies as queer.[6]

Her second novel, Crosshairs, was published in 2020.[7]

Scarborough was adapted by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson into the film Scarborough,[8] which premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.[9] Hernandez won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for the film's screenplay.[10]

The novel was subsequently selected for the 2022 edition of Canada Reads, where it will be defended by Malia Baker.[11]

References

External links

• Author's website

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