Kate Pullinger
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Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, and a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, England.
Early life and education
She was born 1961 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill University, Montreal, after a year and a half.
Career
Pullinger worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon. She then travelled and settled in London, where she now resides.
Pullinger has been writer-in-residence at the Battersea Arts Centre, the University of Reading, the prisons HMP Gartree and HMP Maidstone, and in Maidstone itself. She was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Writing Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (1995/96), and the Visiting Writing Fellow at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University (2001/03). She was Research Fellow for The trAce Online Writing Centre Arts and Humanities Research Board project Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, where she investigated new forms of electronic narrative (2002/03). She taught on the MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, where she was Reader in Creative Writing and New Media. She is a member of the Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) group at De Montfort, researching transliteracy. She is the Royal Literary Fund Virtual Fellow and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.[1]
Pullinger is an atheist.[2]
Writing
Pullinger's earlier books include the novels When the Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Kissing End? (1992), The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996), Weird Sister (1999) and A Little Stranger (2004 in Canada and 2006 in the UK), as well as the short-story collections Tiny Lies (1988) and My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997). She co-wrote the novelization of the film The Piano (1993) with director Jane Campion.
Electronic literature
George Landow examined Kate Pullinger's and Talan Memmott's 2003 animated poem, Branded, in his 2006 textbook, Hypertext 3.0. He explains that this poem moves text on screen one line at a time, for a computer-driven timed reading.[3]
Pullinger also writes for film and for the digital media. Her most recent digital works are Flight Paths (2007–), a "networked novel" created in collaboration with worldwide participants, and Inanimate Alice (2005–), a series of multimedia novels, both created with writer/artist Chris Joseph,[4][5][6] and The Breathing Wall (2004), experimental fiction that responds to the reader's rate of breathing, made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and Chris Joseph.[7]
Pullinger was the lead writer on the 24hr Book Project, a project to write, edit and produce a novel in 24 hours, which was managed by CompletelyNovel.com in collaboration with if:book (a book industry think tank), the Society of Young Publishers and Spread the Word (a writer development agency).[8]
Breathe was exhibited at the British Library, 2023.
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Awards
Pullinger won the 2009 Governor General's Award[9] for her novel The Mistress of Nothing, a fictionalized tale of Sally Naldrett, lady's maid to Lady Duff Gordon, who traveled with her mistress to Egypt in Victorian times.
She received the 2021 Electronic Literature Organization's Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award for her work to bridge print and digital fiction.[10]
Selected bibliography
Novels
- — (1990). When the Monster Dies. Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-31398-8. OCLC 877427631.
- — (1994). The Piano. Miramax/Hyperion. ISBN 978-0-7868-6121-7. OCLC 1321448902.
- — (1997). The Last Time I Saw Jane. Phoenix. ISBN 978-1-85799-864-1. OCLC 717313020.
- — (2000). Weird Sister. Phoenix. ISBN 978-0-7538-1064-4. OCLC 48238032.
- — (2007). A Little Stranger. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-487-9. OCLC 254784698.
- — (2014). The Mistress of Nothing. Anchor Canada. ISBN 978-0-385-68254-1. OCLC 909084525.
- — (2015). Landing Gear. Touchstone. ISBN 978-1-4767-5321-8. OCLC 911389823.
- — (2021). Forest Green. Anchor Canada. ISBN 978-0-385-68306-7. OCLC 1110578573.
Hypertexts
- 2005-2018. Inanimate Alice.
- 2007. A Million Penguins.
Short stories
- — (1989). Tiny Lies. Picador. ISBN 978-0-224-02560-7. OCLC 741252252.
- — (1998). My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison. Phoenix House. ISBN 978-0-7538-0134-5. OCLC 38884343.
References
- ^ Allen, Katie (28 September 2012). "Weldon and Hensher head to Bath Spa". The Bookseller. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ Kate Pullinger, "Extremadura's Moorish tendency", The Independent, 18 November 1989, Weekend Travel, p. 49.
- ^ Landow, George P. (2006). Hypertext 3.0: critical theory and new media in an era of globalization. Parallax (3rd ed.). Baltimore (Md.): Johns Hopkins university press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8018-8256-2.
- ^ Pauli, Michelle (7 December 2006). "Down with Alice". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ Chin, Yvette M. (1 April 2011). "DigitAlice – A Conversation with Inanimate Alice Producer Ian Harper". DigitalBookWorld.com. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ PR Web (17 November 2011). "International Acclaim Grows for Inanimate Alice". Archived from the original on November 19, 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ Ensslin, A (2007). "From (w)reader to breather: Cybertextual retro-intentionalisation". hdl:10242/43790.
- ^ "The Clock's ticking..." The Bookseller. 5 October 2009. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ "Winners of 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards announced by the Canada Council for the Arts", Montreal, 17 November 2009.
- ^ Marino, Mark (2021-05-31). "Kate Pullinger Wins Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2023-11-24.
External links
- Personal website
- Kate Pullinger biography at British Council Literature
- Dr Kate Pullinger at De Montfort University, Leicester
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- Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth (1936)
- Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)
- Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata (1938)
- Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road (1939)
- Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940)
- Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
- G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942)
- Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
- Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944)
- Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945)
- Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946)
- Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947)
- Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948)
- Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
- Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950)
- Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951)
- David Walker, The Pillar (1952)
- David Walker, Digby (1953)
- Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954)
- Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955)
- Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956)
- Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957)
- Colin McDougall, Execution (1958)
- Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
- Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
- Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
- Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise (1962)
- Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963)
- Douglas LePan, The Deserter (1964)
- [no award] (1965)
- Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966)
- [no award] (1967)
- Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
- Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man (1969)
- Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970)
- Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
- Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972)
- Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
- Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974)
- Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
- Marian Engel, Bear (1976)
- Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977)
- Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
- Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
- George Bowering, Burning Water (1980)
- Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982)
- Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
- Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986)
- M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine (1987)
- David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988)
- Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)
- Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990)
- Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey (1991)
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
- Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993)
- Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
- Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995)
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996)
- Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997)
- Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998)
- Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)
- Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
- Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001)
- Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
- Douglas Glover, Elle (2003)
- Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004)
- David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
- Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams (2006)
- Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007)
- Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008)
- Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
- Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010)
- Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011)
- Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012)
- Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013)
- Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (2014)
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
- Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
- Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
- Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018)
- Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)
- Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (2020)
- Norma Dunning, Tainna (2021)
- Sheila Heti, Pure Colour (2022)
- Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis (2023)