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Claire Battershill | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Battershill at SFU in 2017 | |
| Born | |
| Occupation | Writer and literary scholar |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford; University of Toronto |
| Period | 2010s–present |
| Notable works | Circus (2014) |
| Notable awards | CBC Literary Prize for Short Story; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Talent Award |
| Relatives | Andrew Battershill (brother) |
Claire Battershill is a Canadian fiction writer and literary scholar. On September 15, 2017, Battershill was honoured by receiving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Talent Award from Governor General David Johnston.[1]
Her collection of short stories, Circus, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2014, the title story having won the CBC Literary Prize in 2008. The book was awarded the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, was a joint winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the PEN International New Voices Award.
Biography
[edit]Battershill was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and is the sister of novelist Andrew Battershill.
She holds a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of Oxford and a PhD in book history and English literature from the University of Toronto. She publishes academically on the literary history and culture of the 20th century, especially on Virginia Woolf and her publishing house, the Hogarth Press.[2][3]
Battershill's collection of short stories, Circus, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2014. The title story had won the CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction in 2008.[4][5]The book won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize,[6][7] was a co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award[8] and the PEN International New Voices Award.[4]
Awards
[edit]- 2008: CBC Literary Prize for Short Story ("Circus")[9]
- 2017: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Talent Award
References
[edit]- ↑
"Banting Fellow and fiction writer nets national SSHRC Talent Award". Simon Fraser University. September 15, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
Claire Battershill, an award-winning fiction writer who holds a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in English at SFU, is being honoured with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's (SSHRC) prestigious Talent Award.
- ↑ "Postdoc Profile: Claire Battershill, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow - Graduate Studies & Postdoctoral Fellows - Simon Fraser University". Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- ↑ Battershill, Claire (2019). Modernist Lives: Biography and Autobiography at Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350134232.
- 1 2 Beattie, Steven W. (August 23, 2013). "M&S to publish award-winning author Claire Battershill's debut collection". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
- ↑ "The storyteller: Claire Battershill". Quill & Quire, January 22, 2014.
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Beeston, Laura (July 8, 2015). "The Globe's Robyn Doolittle wins Kobo Emerging Writer Prize". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
Doolittle was awarded the inaugural non-fiction prize for Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story. Other winners include Claire Battershill's Circus, which was named best in literary fiction and Sam Wiebe, who won the mystery category with Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir.
- ↑ "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire. July 8, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- ↑ "Danuta Gleed Literary Award shortlist revealed". CBC Books, May 4, 2015.
- ↑ "Past CBC Literary Prize winners | 2008". CBC Literary Prizes. Retrieved May 12, 2026.
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