Amanda Leduc

Amanda Leduc is a Canadian writer. She is known primarily for her 2020 book, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space.

Amanda Leduc
Born
British Columbia
NationalityCanadian
OccupationWriter
Websiteamandaleduc.com

Career

Leduc's first novel, The Miracles of Ordinary Men, was published in 2013 by ECW Press. The novel alternates perspectives between Sam, a man who has recently begun sprouting wings, and Lilah.[1]

Leduc is the Communications and Development Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada's first festival for diverse authors and stories. [2]

In 2020, Leduc's non-fiction book, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space was published by Coach House Books.[3] The book discusses representations of disability in fairy tales.[4] Disfigured is part memoir and explores Leduc's personal experiences as a disabled person.[5] Leduc was interested in challenging the idea that disability is "synonymous with an unhappy ending".[6] She began writing it after walking in the forest in 2018 and considering how forests, the setting of many fairy tales, are often inherently inaccessible to disabled individuals.[7]

Personal life

Leduc was born in British Columbia.[7] She has congenital cerebral palsy and as a young child developed a limp as a consequence of an operation to remove a cyst from her brain.[8] Leduc also has spastic hemiplegia.[6]

Leduc currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario.[7]

Works
  • The Miracles of Ordinary Men (2013)[1]
  • Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (2020)[9]
  • The Centaur's Wife (2021)[10][11][12]

Awards

In 2015, Leduc was a finalist for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Fiction.[7] Leduc's short story, "All This, and Heaven Too", was long-listed for the 2019 CBC short story prize.[13]

References
  1. Berry, David (2013-11-01). "Amanda Leduc: 'Fascination with guilt and penance are primal'". National Post. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  2. "Our Team". The FOLD. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  3. "Disfigured". CBC Books. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  4. "Amanda Leduc reimagines the power of people with disabilities in fairy tales with Disfigured". CBC Radio. 2020-03-20. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  5. Corkum, Trevor (2020-03-31). "The Chat with Amanda Leduc". 49thshelf.com. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  6. Carter, Sue (2020-01-09). "'Princesses are never disabled:' Hamilton author Amanda Leduc takes on fairy-tale culture". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  7. ""This Was the Perfect Time for Me to Tell the Story" Amanda Leduc Talks Fairy Tales, Disability, and Progress in Her New Book". open-book.ca. 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  8. Charles, Ron (2020-02-27). "Review | In 'Disfigured,' a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  9. Aiello, K. J. (2020-02-03). "Author Amanda Leduc calls for making space for the disabled, even in our fairy stories". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  10. "The Centaur's Wife by Amanda Leduc". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  11. Wong, Alice (2020-02-10). "Q&A with Amanda Leduc on Fairy Tales and Disability". Disability Visibility Project. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  12. Porter, Ryan (2020-01-20). "Amanda Leduc's disability justice critique of fairy tales speaks to our own ableist society". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  13. "All This, and Heaven Too by Amanda Leduc". CBC. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
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