Cate Kennedy
{{short description|Australian author based in Victoria (born 1963)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date=December 2011}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Cate Kennedy
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1963
| birth_place = Louth, Lincolnshire
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| occupation = Writer, poet and teacher of creative writing, editor
| language = English
| nationality = Australian
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| notableworks = The Taste of River Water
| awards = 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award
| years_active = 1978-
}}
Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria.
Life and career
Kennedy was born in 1963 in England at Louth, Lincolnshire.{{Cite web |title=Cate Kennedy |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A17128 |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}} She was educated at the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. She has taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne.
Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for The Age fiction prize 2010 and the ASA Barbara Jefferis Award 2010, among others. She is a short-story writer whose work has twice won The Age Short Story Competition and has appeared in a range of publications, including The New Yorker. Her collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires. Her book The Taste of River Water: New and Selected Poems by Cate Kennedy, which was published in May 2011, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry.
Awards
- 2013: Steele Rudd Award. Winner for Like a House on Fire
- 2013: The Stella Prize[http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2013-2/shortlist-2013/ The Stella Prize 2013 Shortlist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150228051150/http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2013-2/shortlist-2013/ |date=28 February 2015 }}, The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015 Shortlisted for Like a House on Fire
- 2011: Victorian Premier's Literary Award C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry{{cite web|title="Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2011" |publisher= The Wheeler Centre|url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2011/|access-date= 15 May 2024}} Winner for The Taste of River Water
- 2004: IP Picks. Winner for Joyflight
- 2004: Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition. Winner
- 2002: The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize for Signs of Other Fires
- 2001 Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Highly Commended for Signs of Other Fires
- 2000 & 2001: The Age Short Story Award
- 1997: ANUTECH Literary Prize. Short Story Winner for White Flight
- 1996 & 1997: HQ/HarperCollins Short Story Competition. Shortlisted
- 1994 & 1995: Scarlett Stiletto. Winner
Other awards: The Herald/Sun Short Story Award
The 2007 Sisters in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Awards include a category named for Kennedy: "The Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent ($350)"
Bibliography
=Novels=
- The World Beneath (Scribe, 2009) ISBN 978-1-921372-96-4
= Short fiction =
;Collections
- Dark Roots, (Scribe, 2006) ISBN 1-920769-99-4 [http://www.theprogram.net.au/reviewsSub.asp?id=4106&state=1 review]
- Like a House on Fire, (Scribe, 2012) ISBN 978-1-922070-06-7
;Selected short stories
| class='wikitable sortable' |
| width=25%|Title
!|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected !|Notes |
|---|
| Cold snap
|2006 |??? |
|Reprinted as "Black ice" in The New Yorker |
| Five dollar family
|2009 |{{cite journal |author=Kennedy, Cate |date=Autumn 2009 |title=Five dollar family |journal=Overland |volume=194 |pages=28–37}} | | |
| Doisneau's kiss
|2014 |{{cite journal |author=Kennedy, Cate |date=September 2014 |title=Doisneau's kiss |journal=Australian Book Review |volume=364 |pages=54-57 |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2014/122-september-2014-no-364/2147-doisneau-s-kiss }} | | |
;Anthologies (edited)
- Labour of Love : Tales from the World of Midwives, with Amanda Tattam (Macmillan, 2005){{cite web|title= Labour of Love : Tales from the World of Midwives edited by Cate Kennedy and Amanda Tattam|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/ |access-date= 5 March 2025}}
- Love & Desire : Four Modern Australian Novellas (Five Mile Press, 2007){{cite web|title= Love & Desire : Four Modern Australian Novellas edited by Cate Kennedy |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3807818 |access-date= 5 March 2025}}
- The Best Australian Stories 2011 (Black Inc, 2011){{cite web|title= The Best Australian Stories 2011 edited by Cate Kennedy|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C801743|access-date= 5 March 2025}}
- Australian Love Stories (Inkerman & Blunt, 2014){{cite web|title= Australian Love Stories edited by Cate Kennedy |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6486400 |access-date= 5 March 2025}}
= Poetry =
;Collections
- Signs of Other Fires, (Five Islands Press, c2001) ISBN 0-86418-728-9
- Joyflight (Interactive Press, 2004) ISBN 1-876819-26-X [http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5313 API review]
- Crucible and Other Poems, (Picaro Press, 2006)
- The Taste of River Water, (Scribe, 2011) ISBN 978-1-921844-00-3
=Memoirs=
- Sing, and Don't Cry : a Mexican Journal, (Transit Lounge, 2005) ISBN 0-9750228-1-4
References
Sources
- [http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/ANU_Reporter/_pdf/vol_28_no_12/anutech.html "Canberra Writers win ANUTECH Competition", in The ANU Reporter, Vol. 28 No. 12]
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070901021315/http://www.scribepublications.com.au/author/catekennedy Cate Kennedy, Scribe Publications] Accessed 17 July 2007
- [http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1782162.htm Di Morrissey and Cate Kennedy in conversation with Richard Fidler, ABC The Backyard, 6 November 2006]
- [http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5313 Hagemann, Helen "Review of Joyflight" in API Network, June 2005]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070902175522/http://www.bookedout.com.au/authors/Cate_Kennedy/index.html Cate Kennedy bio for Booked Out Agency] Accessed: 2007-07-23
- [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/back-to-her-roots/2006/09/14/1157827093579.html Sullivan, Jane (2006) "Back to her roots"] in The Age 2006-09-14 Accessed: 2007-07-23
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