openDemocracy's editor Isabel Hilton interviews Karen Connelly on our weekly poDcast, click here to listen. This extract is from Karen Connelly's first novel, "The Lizard Cage" (Harvill Secker, 2007).

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “I did punch the lizard’s cage.” Police responded to the 900 block of South Jellison Street on Oct. 24 for domestic violence. A man punched a glass tank ...

Karen Connelly's novel "The Lizard Cage" was a finalist for last year's Kiriyama prize for fiction. The award recognizes outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia. Our reviewer Alan ...

ATTICA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Attica police are searching for a Nile monitor lizard that escaped its cage. Police say on July 29 a resident was moving out of an apartment when the 4 1/2-foot long Nile monitor ...

You don’t need to start reading Karen Connelly’s latest knowing anything about her Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1993 or her five books of poetry or her enduring love for the country of ...

The Lizard Cage is a harrowing piece of fiction — with a lyrical streak — about inmates and jailers in a Burmese prison. Karen Connelly's novel first appeared in Canada and was named as a finalist for ...

Connelly won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction with Dream of a Thousand Lives: A Sojourn in Thailand, and her debut novel revisits Southeast Asia to soulful effect. Imprisoned in a mid-'90s ...