Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter | |
|---|---|
 Winter at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | February 25, 1960 Bill Quay, England |
| Occupations | Novelist, television writer, columnist |
| Writing career | |
| Period | 1980s–present |
| Notable work | Annabel |
Kathleen Winter (born 1960)[1] is an English Canadian short story writer and novelist.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Born 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.
- 1 2 3 "Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize". cbc.ca, 27 March 2008.
- 1 2 People: Kathleen Winter Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. The Scope.
- ↑ "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
- 1 2 "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!". www.cbc.ca. Archived from the original on 18 September 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
External links
[edit]- Kathleen Winter on Goodreads
- Profile at Writers' Trust
- Profile at CBC
- Profile at Penguin Random House
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Canadian television writers
- Canadian women short story writers
- English short story writers
- English television writers
- English emigrants to Canada
- Writers from Tyne and Wear
- British women short story writers
- Canadian women television writers
- 21st-century Canadian women novelists
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Screenwriters from Newfoundland and Labrador
- Screenwriters from Montreal
- Novelists from Newfoundland and Labrador
- Novelists from Montreal
- 20th-century English women novelists
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English women novelists
- 21st-century English novelists