Kathleen Winter

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Kathleen Winter (born February 25, 1960)[1] is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.[2]

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]

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

Works

  • Where Is Mario? (1987)
  • The Road Along the Shore - An Island Shore Journal (1991)
  • boYs (2007)
  • Annabel (2010)

References

  1. ↑ "Kathleen Winter". Writers & Writing - Members' Pages. The Writers' Union of Canada. Retrieved April 14, 2011. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize". cbc.ca, March 27, 2008.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 People: Kathleen Winter. The Scope.
  4. ↑ "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 2010.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Emma Donoghue, Kathleen Winter make GG short list". The Globe and Mail, October 13, 2010.
  6. ↑ Retrieved 22 March 2011.


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