Griffin Poetry Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 20 (2020) Winner
Kaie Kellough
カイ・ケロウ
Kaie Kellough
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1975 （Vancouver, British Columbia）
- Nationality
- Canada
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Vancouver, British Columbia → Calgary, Alberta → Montreal, Quebec
Career
- Occupations
- poet, novelist, short story writer, sound poet
- Active Years
- 2005-2024
- Influenced By
- Dionne Brand
- Nominations
- Giller Prize 2020 longlist, ReLit Award 2021 short fiction longlist
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Griffin Poetry Prize | Magnetic Equator | Canada | Griffin Trust | Won |
| 2020 | Quebec Writers' Federation Awards Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction | Dominoes at the Crossroads | — | Quebec Writers' Federation | Won |
| 2011 | Manitoba Book Awards | Maple Leaf Rag | Manuela Dias Design Award | — | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Amazon.ca First Novel Award | Accordéon | — | — | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | QWF A.M. Klein Award for Poetry | Magnetic Equator | — | Quebec Writers' Federation | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Danuta Gleed Literary Award | Dominoes at the Crossroads | — | — | Shortlisted |
Griffin Poetry Prize
2020
Work:
Magnetic Equator
Category:
Canada
Organization:
Griffin Trust
Result:
Won
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
2020
Work:
Dominoes at the Crossroads
Organization:
Quebec Writers' Federation
Result:
Won
Manitoba Book Awards
2011
Work:
Maple Leaf Rag
Category:
Manuela Dias Design Award
Result:
Shortlisted
Amazon.ca First Novel Award
2017
Work:
Accordéon
Result:
Shortlisted
QWF A.M. Klein Award for Poetry
2019
Work:
Magnetic Equator
Organization:
Quebec Writers' Federation
Result:
Shortlisted
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
2021
Work:
Dominoes at the Crossroads
Result:
Shortlisted
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Accordéon
2016 novelExperimental debut novel that takes the form of a transcript of an interrogation by three agents from a Ministry of Culture, inspired by the Quebec Charter of Values controversy.
Quebec Charter of ValuesMontreal's multiplicitycontradictory city
Magnetic Equator
2019 poetry collectionPoetry collection that won the Griffin Poetry Prize, compiled after an encounter with Dionne Brand.
layering of voicelanguage productionvoices at the margins
Dominoes at the Crossroads
2020 short story collectionShort story collection longlisted for Giller Prize and winner of Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize.
identitymulticulturalism
Bibliography
- Lettricity (2005)
- Maple Leaf Rag (2010)
- Vox:Versus (2011)
- Creole Continuum (2014)
- Accordéon (2016)
- Magnetic Equator (2019)
- Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimentalvocal sound poetrymultiplies and layers voiceexplores fundamentals of language-production
- Recurring Motifs
- messy multiplicity of Montrealcontradictory citymultiply voices at the margins
Legacy
Recognized for innovative poetry and fiction, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. First person nominated for both Griffin Poetry Prize and Scotiabank Giller Prize in the same year.
Trivia
- Of Guyanese descent.
- Born in Vancouver, raised in Calgary, living in Montreal since 1998.
- Practitioner of vocal sound poetry.