Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Born (1965-02-06) February 6, 1965 (age 60)
Occupationnovelist, short story writer
NationalityCanadian
Period2000s-present
Notable worksWay Up, The Nettle Spinner, All the Broken Things
Website
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (born February 6, 1965) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and writing mentor.

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Early life

Kuitenbrouwer was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and later moved to Toronto. [1]

Career

Her debut short story collection, Way Up, was published in 2003. [2] It was a shortlisted finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award [3] and the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2004. Her first novel, The Nettle Spinner, was published in 2005, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. [4] Her second novel, Perfecting, followed in 2009. [5] Her most recent novel, All the Broken Things, was published in 2014 by Random House of Canada. [3] [6] It was a shortlisted finalist for the Toronto Book Award, [7] long listed for Canada Reads in 2016, and was a national bestseller.

Kuitenbrouwer has also been a book reviewer for The Globe and Mail and the National Post , and has published short fiction in Granta , The Walrus , Numéro Cinq, Significant Objects, Maclean's Magazine, and Storyville. [8]

In 2018, Kuitenbrouwer received a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Toronto, where she was supervised by Mari Ruti. Her Ph.D. thesis is a psychoanalytic investigation into creativity, with special attention to the British novel in the eighteenth century.

In 2023 she published the novel Wait Softly Brother, [9] which was longlisted for the Giller Prize. [10]

As of 2025, Kuitenbrouwer is a writing mentor in the Master of Fine Arts in Fiction program at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn. "On Granta Magazine, Submission, and Persistence". Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "A voice that sneaks on up; Toronto's Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is a pleasant surprise: Debut story collection entertaining, even a bit enlightening". Toronto Star , March 28, 2004.
  3. 1 2 "Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's All the Broken Things haunted by the traumas of war". The Georgia Straight , February 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Canadian First Novel Award announces shortlist". The Globe and Mail , June 23, 2006.
  5. ↑ "Ambitious story told from seven points of view". Winnipeg Free Press , April 26, 2009.
  6. ↑ "So much depends upon an Orange Blossom; A young boy must care for his disfigured sister and a carnival bear cub in Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's look into the meaning of family". National Post , January 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Emily St. John Mandel wins 2015 Toronto Book Award". Toronto Star , October 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Stretching the Space of Realism: An Interview with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer". The Puritan, Issue 26 (Summer 2014).
  9. ↑ Robert J. Wiersema, "Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer makes hay of the secrets and lies of the past in new novel ‘Wait Softly Brother’". Toronto Star , May 9, 2023.
  10. ↑ "12 Canadian books make longlist for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books, September 6, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer". University of King's College. University of King's College. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
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