Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in

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Life and career

Kennedy graduated from the

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and has also taught at several colleges, including

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. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel ''The World Beneath'', which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for ''The Age'' fiction prize 2010 and the ASA Barbara Jefferis Award 2010, among others. She is a short-story writer whose work has twice won The Age Short Story Competition and has appeared in a range of publications, including ''

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''. Her collection, ''

Dark Roots ''Dark Roots'' is a collection of short fiction by Cate Kennedy. It was first published in Australia by Scribe (publisher), Scribe in 2006. ''Cold Snap'' appeared in The New Yorker under the title ''Black Ice''. ''What Thou and I Did, till We Lo ...

'', was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir ''Sing, and Don’t Cry'', and the poetry collections ''Joyflight'' and ''Signs of Other Fires''. Her book ''The Taste of River Water: New and Selected Poems by Cate Kennedy'', which was published in May 2011, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry.

Awards

* 2013: Steele Rudd Award. Winner for ''Like a House on Fire'' * 2013
The Stella Prize
Shortlisted for ''Like a House on Fire'' * 2011: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry * 2004: IP Picks. Winner for ''Joyflight'' * 2004: Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition. Winner * 2002:

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for ''Signs of Other Fires'' * 2001

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. Highly Commended for ''Signs of Other Fires'' * 2000 & 2001:

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* 1997: ANUTECH Literary Prize. Short Story Winner for ''White Flight'' * 1996 & 1997: HQ/HarperCollins Short Story Competition. Shortlisted * 1994 & 1995: Scarlett Stiletto. Winner Other awards: The ''Herald/Sun'' Short Story Award The 2007 Sisters in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Awards include a category named for Kennedy: "The Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent ($350)"

Selected works

Poetry, short story collections

* ''Signs of Other Fires'' (Five Islands Press, c2001) * ''Joyflight'' ( Interactive Press, 2004) API review
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/small> * ''Crucible and Other Poems'' ( Picaro Press, 2006) * ''The Taste of River Water'' (Scribe, 2011) * ''Like a House on Fire'' (

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, 2012)

Short stories

Novels

* ''The World Beneath'' (

, 2009)

Edited

* ''Labour of love : tales from the world of midwives'', with Amanda Tattam ( Macmillan, 2005) * ''Love & desire : four modern Australian novellas'' ( Five Mile Press, 2007) * ''The best Australian stories 2011'' (

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, 2011) * ''Australian love stories'' (Inkerman & Blunt, 2014)

Memoirs

* ''Sing, and Don't Cry : a Mexican Journal'', (

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, 2005)

References

Sources

"Canberra Writers win ANUTECH Competition", in ''The ANU Reporter'', Vol. 28 No. 12

External links

Cate Kennedy, Scribe Publications
Accessed 17 July 2007

* [http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5313 Hagemann, Helen "Review of ''Joyflight''" in ''API Network'', June 2005]
Cate Kennedy bio for Booked Out Agency
Accessed: 2007-07-23

in ''

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