Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter (born 1960) is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist. Life and career. Born in Bill Quay, near Newcastle in the north of England and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter began her career as a script writer for "Sesame Street" before becoming a columnist for "The Telegram" in St. John's. Her debut short story collection, "boYs", was published in 2007 and won that year's Winterset Award and Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her novel "Annabel" was published in 2010, and won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. It was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank  Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards. 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. In 2014 it was chosen for the "Canada Reads" competition, where it was championed by actress Sarah Gadon. 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. She was a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She lives in Montreal, Quebec, with her husband, Jean. She is also the sister of novelist Michael Winter.