Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival Q and A: Kathleen Winter

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Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival
Q and A: Kathleen Winter
Published Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 1:28PM EDT

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/q-and-a-kathleen-winter/article1765359/

Kathleen Winter's debut novel Annabel is on the shortlist of all three major competitions of the 2010 Canadian literary season: the Governor-General's Literary Award for English-language fiction; the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; and the Giller Prize. Her first collection of short stories, boYs, was the winner of both the Winterset Award and the 2006 Metcalfe-Rooke Award. A long-time resident of St. John's, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal.

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