Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter is the author of nine books, including her memoir Boundless and the novels Annabel, and Undersong, which draws inspiration from Dorothy Wordsworth’s unpublished diaries. She has been shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Giller Prize, and two Governor General’s Literary Awards. Winter was born in the United Kingdom, has lived in Newfoundland and Montreal, and now lives in Quebec’s Eastern Townships where she is working on a book of poetry.
Writers & Books
Award History
2014 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
forBoundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
Jury Citation
“Boundless is a sensual, philosophical, myth-busting journey through the high Arctic on a search for a grounded meaning of the North West Passage. Its transcendent writing and superb weaving of action, interview, memoir, history, geology, flora, and fauna transmits Kathleen Winter's personal, and profoundly universal, natural awareness. Boundless opens our minds and senses, and enriches our spiritual connection to ourselves through nature. This quirky, eloquent paean to the land blesses readers with its bounty.” – 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury (Charles Foran, Priscila Uppal, and Merrily Weisbord)
Works Recognized by WT