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Kate Cayley

ケイト・ケイリー

Keito Keirī

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality
カナダ
Languages
English
Residence History
Ottawa, Canada → Toronto, Canada

Career

Occupations
writer, playwright, theatre director
Active Years
2002-2024
Affiliations
Stranger Theatre (artistic director), Tarragon Theatre (playwright-in-residence 2009-2017)
Nominations
Shortlisted for ReLit Award 2014 (How This World Comes to an End), Shortlisted for Governor General's Award for English-language fiction 2015 (How You Were Born)

Awards

Geoffrey Bilson Award
2012
Work: The Hangman in the Mirror
Organization: Canadian Library Association
Result: winner
Trillium Book Award
2015
Work: How You Were Born
Organization: Ontario Arts Council
Result: winner
Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry
2021
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

How You Were Born

2014 short stories

A collection of short stories.

human relationshipsidentity

The Hangman in the Mirror

2011 young adult fiction

Young adult historical novel.

historyexecutionforgiveness

After Akhmatova

play

Play about Anna Akhmatova.

oppressionpoetry

Bibliography

  • The Yellow Wallpaper Project
  • The Clown of God
  • East of the Sun, West of the Moon
  • The Counterfeit Marquise
  • And What Alice Found There
  • The World Turned Upside Down
  • The Hanging of Françoise Laurent
  • The Bakelite Masterpiece
  • After Akhmatova
  • This is Nowhere
  • The Archive of Missing Things
  • Other Houses
  • When This World Comes to an End
  • Householders
  • How You Were Born
  • The Hangman in the Mirror

Style & Themes

Literary Style
poeticexperimental
Recurring Motifs
historical themesfolktalesoppression

Legacy

Canadian writer and theatre director known for plays, poetry, short stories, and young adult literature. Winner of Trillium Book Award, Geoffrey Bilson Award, and Mitchell Prize.