Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter

Winter at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born 1960
Bill Quay, England
Occupation novelist, television writer, columnist
Nationality Canadian
Period 1980s-present
Notable works Annabel

Kathleen Winter (born 1960)[1] is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist.[2]

Life and career

Born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead in the north of England and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street[3] before becoming a columnist for The Telegram in St. John's.[3] Her debut short story collection, boYs, was published in 2007 and won that year's Winterset Award and Metcalf-Rooke Award.[2]

Her novel Annabel was published in 2010, and won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. It was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize,[4] the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.[5] It held the distinction of being the only novel to make the short list of all three awards in 2010.[5] In 2011 it was shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.[6] In 2014 it was chosen for the Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by actress Sarah Gadon.

A second book of short stories, The Freedom in American Songs, was released in 2014, along with a nonfiction book entitled Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage. Boundless was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[7]

She is a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

She lives in Montreal with her Québécois husband and their daughter. She is also the sister of novelist Michael Winter.[2]

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Kathleen Winter". Writers & Writing - Members' Pages. The Writers' Union of Canada. Retrieved April 14, 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize". cbc.ca, March 27, 2008.
  3. 1 2 People: Kathleen Winter. The Scope.
  4. ↑ "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 2010.
  5. 1 2 "Emma Donoghue, Kathleen Winter make GG short list". The Globe and Mail, October 13, 2010.
  6. ↑ "The 2011 Orange Prize contenders". The Daily Telegraph, April 12, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Hilary Weston Prize 2014: The shortlist revealed!". CBC Books, September 17, 2014.


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