Kathleen Winter, a longtime resident of St. John’s who now lives in Montreal, is nominated for the 2011 Orange Prize, a British award for female authors of fiction, for her book Annabel.
Excerpt from The Gazette, April 12, 2011
Two women in Canada have been shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize, a British award for female authors of fiction – including a former writer for the children’s TV show Sesame Street.
The six final candidates for the 16th annual Orange Prize were announced Tuesday.
Kathleen Winter, a longtime resident of St. John’s who now lives in Montreal, is nominated for Annabel.
(…) Emma Donoghue, an Irish writer now living in Canada, has been nominated for Room, a tale of a boy whose mother tells him on his fifth birthday, for the first time, that there’s a world outside the room in which they’ve been living.
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