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Camilla Gibb is a writer living in Toronto. She holds a DPhil in social anthropology from Oxford University, but left academia in 2000 in order to pursue writing full-time.

Gibb gained recognition as a writer with the publication of her first novel, Mouthing the Words, in 1999. In 2000, the novel won Gibb the City of Toronto Book Award, and in 2001, she won the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction.

Gibb's second novel, The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life, was published in August 2002.

Gibb's third novel, Sweetness in the Belly (2005), is set against the backdrop of the Ethiopian Revolution and largely takes place in the ancient walled city of Harar. It was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2005, longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award and won the Trillium Award for best book in Ontario in 2006.

Her fourth novel, The Beauty of Humanity Movement will be published in Canada in September 2010, and the US and the UK in spring 2011.

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