Kathleen Winter | |
|---|---|
 Winter at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | February 25, 1960 Bill Quay, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, television writer, columnist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1980s–present |
| Notable works | Annabel |
Kathleen Winter (born 1960) [1] is an English Canadian short story writer and novelist. [2]
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]
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