Raziel Reid
Raziel Reid is a Vancouver-based writer of YA fiction.
Raziel Reid is an author of YA fiction that addresses the challenges of being a gay adolescent. He portrays the subject in the YA novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies, which was awarded the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature — text. The novel was defended by Elaine "Lainey" Lui on Canada Reads 2015. It was also nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT children's/young adult literature the same year. His latest book is the the YA novel Kens.
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Books by Raziel Reid
Interviews with Raziel Reid
Raziel Reid talks about "When Everything Feels Like the Movies," his controversial, award-winning book. 10:45
Raziel Reid on The Next Chapter 14:13
Canada Reads starts on Monday, and Vancouver author Raziel Reid's debut novel When Everything Feels Like the Movies is one of five contenders vying for the title. 18:14
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