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Cate Kennedy | |
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| Born | 1963 Louth, Lincolnshire England |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet and teacher of creative writing, editor |
| Known for | Short stories |
Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria.
Kennedy was born in 1963 in England at Louth, Lincolnshire. [1] She was educated at the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. She has taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. [2]
Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for The Age fiction prize 2010 and the ASA Barbara Jefferis Award 2010, among others. She is a short-story writer whose work has twice won The Age Short Story Competition and has appeared in a range of publications, including The New Yorker . Her collection, Dark Roots , was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires. Her book The Taste of River Water: New and Selected Poems by Cate Kennedy, which was published in May 2011, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry. [3]
Other awards: The Herald/Sun Short Story Award
The 2007 Sisters in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Awards include a category named for Kennedy: "The Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent ($350)"
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| Cold snap | 2006 | 2006 |
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| Doisneau's kiss | 2014 | Kennedy, Cate (September 2014). "Doisneau's kiss". Australian Book Review . 364: 54–57. | |
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