Kathleen Winter (born 1960) is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist.
cbc.ca, 27 March 2008.

Life and career

Born in

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, near Newcastle in the north of England and raised in

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, Winter began her career as a script writer for ''

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''People: Kathleen Winter
'' The Scope''. before becoming a columnist for ''

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'' in St. John's. Her debut short story collection, ''boYs'', was published in 2007 and won that year's

Winterset Award The Winterset Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council to a work judged to be the best book, regardless of genre, published by a writer from Newfoundland and Labrador.

and Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her novel '' Annabel'' was published in 2010, and won the

Thomas Head Raddall Award The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

. It was a shortlisted nominee for the

Scotiabank Giller Prize The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition be ...

, the

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, formerly known as the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, is a Canadian literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers. A ...

and the 2010 Governor General's Awards."Emma Donoghue, Kathleen Winter make GG short list"
. ''

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'', 13 October 2010. It held the distinction of being the only novel to make the short list of all three awards in 2010. In 2011 it was shortlisted for the 2011

Orange Prize for Fiction The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's m ...

. In 2014 it was chosen for the ''

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'' competition, where it was championed by actress

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. A second book of short stories, ''The Freedom in American Songs'', was released in 2014, along with a nonfiction book entitled ''Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage''. ''Boundless'' was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. Canada's most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner re ...

."Hilary Weston Prize 2014: The shortlist revealed!"

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, 17 September 2014. She was a member of the jury for the 2016

. She lives in

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, with her husband, Jean. She is also the sister of novelist Michael Winter.

Works

* ''Where Is Mario?'' (1987) * ''The Road Along the Shore - An Island Shore Journal'' (1991) * ''The Necklace of Occasional Dreams'' (1996) * ''boYs'' (2007) * '' Annabel'' (2010) * ''The Freedom in American Songs'' (2014) * ''Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage'' (2014) * '' Lost in September'' (2017)

References

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