Catherine Mavrikakis

Catherine Mavrikakis (born January 7, 1961) is a Canadian academic and writer living in Quebec. From 1993 to 2003, she taught at Concordia University. In 2003, she joined the department of French language literature at the Université de Montréal.

The 2015 virtual reality work The Unknown Photographer incorporated text by Mavrikakis.

Selected works Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques, novel (2000) Ça va aller, novel (2002) Fleurs de crachat, novel (2005), translated into English by Nathanaël as Flowers of Spit (2011) which was shortlisted for a ReLit Award Condamner à mort. Le meurtre et la loi à l'écran, essay (2005), received the Prix Victor-Barbeau and was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit in 2006 Le ciel de Bay City, novel (2008), received the , Omaha Beach, play (2008), shortlisted for a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit in 2008 Les derniers jours de Smokey Nelson, novel (2011), shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction Ce que dit l'écorce (2014), with Nicolas Lévesque