Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
{{short description|Canadian novelist and short story writer (born 1965)}}
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (born February 6, 1965) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Early life
Career
Her debut short story collection, Way Up, was published in 2003."A voice that sneaks on up; Toronto's Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is a pleasant surprise: Debut story collection entertaining, even a bit enlightening". Toronto Star, March 28, 2004. It was a shortlisted finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award[https://www.straight.com/life/595661/kathryn-kuitenbrouwers-all-broken-things-haunted-traumas-war "Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's All the Broken Things haunted by the traumas of war"]. The Georgia Straight, February 26, 2014. and the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2004. Her first novel, The Nettle Spinner, was published in 2005, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award."Canadian First Novel Award announces shortlist". The Globe and Mail, June 23, 2006. Her second novel, Perfecting, followed in 2009."Ambitious story told from seven points of view". Winnipeg Free Press, April 26, 2009. Her most recent novel, All the Broken Things, was published in 2014 by Random House of Canada."So much depends upon an Orange Blossom; A young boy must care for his disfigured sister and a carnival bear cub in Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's look into the meaning of family". National Post, January 18, 2014. It was a shortlisted finalist for the Toronto Book Award,[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2015/10/15/emily-st-john-mandel-wins-2015-toronto-book-award.html "Emily St. John Mandel wins 2015 Toronto Book Award"]. Toronto Star, October 15, 2015. long listed for Canada Reads in 2016, and was a national bestseller.
Kuitenbrouwer has also been a book reviewer for The Globe and Mail and the National Post, and has published short fiction in Granta, The Walrus, Numéro Cinq, Significant Objects, Maclean's Magazine, and Storyville.[http://puritan-magazine.com/stretching-the-space-of-realism-an-interview-with-kathryn-kuitenbrouwer/ "Stretching the Space of Realism: An Interview with Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer"]. The Puritan, Issue 26 (Summer 2014).
In 2018, Kuitenbrouwer received a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Toronto, where she was supervised by Mari Ruti. Her Ph.D. thesis is a psychoanalytic investigation into creativity, with special attention to the British novel in the eighteenth century.
In 2023 she published the novel Wait Softly Brother,Robert J. Wiersema, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2023/05/09/kathryn-kuitenbrouwer-makes-hay-of-the-secrets-and-lies-of-the-past-in-new-novel-wait-softly-brother.html "Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer makes hay of the secrets and lies of the past in new novel ‘Wait Softly Brother’"]. Toronto Star, May 9, 2023. which was longlisted for the Giller Prize.[https://www.cbc.ca/books/12-canadian-books-make-longlist-for-100k-scotiabank-giller-prize-1.6956931 "12 Canadian books make longlist for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize"]. CBC Books, September 6, 2023.
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External links
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Category:21st-century Canadian short story writers
Category:21st-century Canadian novelists
Category:Canadian women short story writers
Category:Canadian women novelists
Category:Canadian literary critics
Category:Canadian women literary critics
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:Canadian women non-fiction writers
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