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