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Christopher DiRaddo

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Christopher DiRaddo is a Canadian fiction writer, editor and producer living in Montreal.

His first novel, The Geography of Pluto[1], was published by Cormorant Books in 2014. The book was named one of the Top 20 Bestselling LGBTQ modern classics of 2016[2] by Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop. DiRaddo is also the author of several short stories and essays that have appeared in Arsenal Pulp Press anthologies, including the collection First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Anthology in 2007.[3]

DiRaddo is also the producer and host of the Violet Hour, a queer reading series that takes place in the off-hours of a strip club in Montreal’s gay village. In 2017, DiRaddo began to work as an associate producer for the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, where he created an LGBTQ series for the festival and, in 2018, the Blue Metropolis Violet Literary Prize, an annual award presented to an established Canadian LGBTQ writer in recognition of a body of work.

DiRaddo is also the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation.[4]

References[edit]

  1. "The Geography of Pluto – Cormorant Books". cormorantbooks.com.
  2. "Pluto makes Top 20 at Glad Day - Christopher DiRaddo". 11 January 2017.
  3. Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (30 April 2007). "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards".
  4. "About the QWF". www.qwf.org.


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