Claire Battershill

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Claire Battershill
Claire Battershill at Simon Fraser University - 2017 (37235908315) (cropped).jpg
Battershill at SFU in 2017
Born Dawson Creek, British Columbia
OccupationShort story writer, academic
Nationality Canadian
Period2010s–present
Notable worksCircus

Claire Battershill is a Canadian fiction writer and literary scholar. [1] On September 15, 2017, Battershill was honoured by receiving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Talent Award from Governor General David Johnston. [2]

Her collection of short stories, Circus, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2014. The title story won the CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction. [1] The book won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, [3] [4] was a co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, [1] and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award [5] and the PEN International New Voices Award. [1]

She holds a BA (Hons) 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. [6]

She was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and is the sister of novelist Andrew Battershill.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The storyteller: Claire Battershill". Quill & Quire , January 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Banting Fellow and fiction writer nets national SSHRC Talent Award". Simon Fraser University . 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2019-06-11. 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.
  3. ↑ Laura Beeston (2015-07-08). "The Globe's Robyn Doolittle wins Kobo Emerging Writer Prize". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2019-06-11. 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.
  4. ↑ "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire . July 8, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Danuta Gleed Literary Award shortlist revealed". CBC Books, May 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Postdoc Profile: Claire Battershill, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow - Graduate Studies & Postdoctoral Fellows - Simon Fraser University" . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
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