Katherine Mary Taylor (born 1962) is a French-born Canadian critic and

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, a cultural journalist at ''

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'' newspaper. She is author of three novels, ''Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen,'' ''A Man in Uniform'' and ''Serial Monogamy''.

Biography

Katherine Mary Taylor as born in 1962 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The child of a Canadian diplomat, Taylor was born in France, and grew up both in Europe and in

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. She attended Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, and studied

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and art history at the

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. She has an M.A. in journalism from the

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. After working at the ''

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'' and the ''

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'', Taylor joined the copy desk of ''The Globe and Mail'' in 1989. She moved into the arts section in 1991 and was appointed theatre critic in 1995. She served in that role until 2003, winning two Nathan Cohen Awards for her reviews. In 2009, she was awarded the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy Journalism to study Canadian cultural sovereignty in the digital age. The results were published in the ''

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'' in September 2010.

Fiction

Taylor's first novel, ''Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen'', combines the stories of three women. One is Jeanne Proust, mother of the French novelist

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; the second is the fictional Sarah Simon, a French-Jewish refugee living in wartime Toronto and the third is a contemporary narrator, a Montreal translator named Marie Prevost. The novel, published in 2003 by Doubleday Canada and Chatto & Windus in the U.K., won the Commonwealth Prize for best first book (Canada/Caribbean region), the Toronto Book Award and the

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for fiction. Taylor's second novel, ''A Man in Uniform'', is a fictional detective story set in Paris at the end of the 19th century and based on the actual

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. It was published in August, 2010 by Doubleday Canada and by Crown Publishing in the United States in January, 2011. Her third novel, ''Serial Monogamy'', was published by Doubleday Canada in 2016.

References

External links

http://www.katetaylor.ca
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