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Aga Maksimowska

Aga Maksimowska

Aga Maksimowska is the author of Giant, the 2013 Toronto Book Award finalist coming-of-age novel about premature sexual development and the fall of Communism in Poland. Her stories and essays have been published in Brick, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, White Wall Review, The Lincoln Review, Room, The Globe and Mail and elsewhere. Aga holds a degree in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. Her second novel, Becalming, about the difficulty of nurturing long-term relationships, the conflicts inherent in family dynamics and the challenge of forgiving others, is out now. Aga lives in Toronto with her family.

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The Permanence of Memory in Novels

In his novel In a Strange Room, the South African Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut, wrote, “a journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made… the very air closes behind you like water and soon your presence, which felt so weighty and permanent, has completely…
Aga Maksimowska
May 11, 2026