Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly won the Governor General’s Award for her l992 national best seller, Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. She is also the author of a second book of non-fiction, One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France & Greece, which was praised in the New York Times Review of Books. In addition, she has written four books of poetry. Her novel, The Lizard Cage, was shortlisted for the U.S. Kiriyama Prize and won the UK Orange Prize for New Fiction. Burmese Lessons is her most recent nonfiction book.