Kathleen Winter (born 1960)[1] is an English Canadian short story writer and novelist.[2]
Kathleen Winter | |
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 Winter at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | February 25, 1960 Bill Quay, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, television writer, columnist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1980s–present |
| Notable works | Annabel |
Life and career
editBorn in Bill Quay, near Newcastle 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 was a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She was a James Merrill House Fellow December 2015-January 2016.
She lives in Montreal, Quebec, with her husband, Jean. She is also the sister of novelist Michael Winter.[2]
Works
edit- Where Is Mario? (1987)
- The Road Along the Shore - An Island Shore Journal (1991)
- The Necklace of Occasional Dreams (1996)
- boYs (2007)
- Annabel (2010)
- The Freedom in American Songs (2014)
- Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (2014)
- Lost in September (2017)
- Undersong (2022)
References
edit- ^ "Kathleen Winter". Writers & Writing - Members' Pages. The Writers' Union of Canada. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
- ^ a b c "Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize". cbc.ca, 27 March 2008.
- ^ a b People: Kathleen Winter. The Scope.
- ^ "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". The Globe and Mail, 20 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Emma Donoghue, Kathleen Winter make GG short list" Archived 20 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine. The Globe and Mail, 13 October 2010.
- ^ "The 2011 Orange Prize contenders". The Daily Telegraph, 12 April 2011.
- ^ "Hilary Weston Prize 2014: The shortlist revealed!". CBC Books, 17 September 2014.
External
edit- Kathleen Winter on Goodreads
- Profile at Writers' Trust
- Profile at CBC
- Profile at Penguin Random House