Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (born February 6, 1965) is a

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novelist and short story writer.

Early life

Kuitenbrouwer was born in

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, and later moved to

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Career

Her debut short story collection, ''Way Up'', was published in 2003. It was a shortlisted finalist for the

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"Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's All the Broken Things haunted by the traumas of war"
''

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'', February 26, 2014. and the

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for short fiction in 2004. Her

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, ''The Nettle Spinner'', was published in 2005, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her second novel, ''Perfecting'', followed in 2009. Her most recent novel, ''All the Broken Things'', was published in 2014 by

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. It was a shortlisted finalist for the

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, long listed for ''

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'' in 2016, and was a national bestseller. Kuitenbrouwer has also been a book reviewer for ''

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'' and the ''

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'', and has published short fiction in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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, Significant Objects, Maclean's Magazine,'' and ''Storyville''."Stretching the Space of Realism: An Interview with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer"
''The Puritan'', Issue 26 (Summer 2014). In 2018, Kuitenbrouwer received a Ph.D. in English literature from the

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, where she was supervised by Mari Ruti. Her Ph.D. thesis is a psychoanalytic investigation into creativity, with special attention to the British novel in the eighteenth century.

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