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Kathleen Winter (born 1960) is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist.〔("Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize" ). cbc.ca, March 27, 2008.〕 ==Life and career== Born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead in the north of England and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter began her career as a script writer for ''Sesame Street''〔(People: Kathleen Winter ). ''The Scope''.〕 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,〔("Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list" ). ''The Globe and Mail'', September 20, 2010.〕 the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.〔("Emma Donoghue, Kathleen Winter make GG short list" ). ''The Globe and Mail'', October 13, 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 2011 Orange Prize contenders" ). ''The Daily Telegraph'', April 12, 2011.〕 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.〔("Hilary Weston Prize 2014: The shortlist revealed!" ). CBC Books, September 17, 2014.〕 She lives in Montreal with her Québécois husband and their daughter. She is also the sister of novelist Michael Winter.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathleen Winter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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