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Kathleen Winter

キャサリン・ウィンター

Kyaserin Wintā

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1960-02-25 （Bill Quay, England）
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
English
Residence History
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador → Montreal, Quebec

Career

Occupations
Novelist, television writer, columnist
Active Years
1987-2022
Nominations
Scotiabank Giller Prize 2010 shortlist (Annabel), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2010 shortlist (Annabel), 2010 Governor General's Awards shortlist (Annabel), Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 shortlist (Annabel), Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2014 shortlist (Boundless)

Awards

Winterset Award
2008
Work: boYs
Result: Winner
Metcalf-Rooke Award
2008
Work: boYs
Result: Winner
Thomas Head Raddall Award
2011
Work: Annabel
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Annabel

2010 novel

A novel set in Newfoundland about a family dealing with an intersex child.

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boYs

2007 short story collection

Collection of short stories.

Lost in September

2017 novel

A novel inspired by T. E. Lawrence.

Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

2014 nonfiction

Nonfiction tracing land and dream in a new Northwest Passage.

Bibliography

  • Where Is Mario?
  • The Road Along the Shore - An Island Shore Journal
  • The Necklace of Occasional Dreams
  • boYs
  • Annabel
  • The Freedom in American Songs
  • Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
  • Lost in September
  • Undersong

Legacy

Acclaimed Canadian novelist whose Annabel was shortlisted for major prizes and selected for Canada Reads.

In Popular Culture

  • Championed by Sarah Gadon on Canada Reads 2014.

Trivia

  • Sister of novelist Michael Winter.
  • Began career as a scriptwriter for Sesame Street.