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Cate Kennedy

Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria.

Cate Kennedy
Born1963
Louth, Lincolnshire
OccupationWriter, poet and teacher of creative writing, editor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1978-
Notable worksThe Taste of River Water
Notable awards2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award

Life and career

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Kennedy was born in 1963 in England at Louth, Lincolnshire.[1] She was educated at the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. She has taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne.[2]

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.[3]

Awards

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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)"

Selected works

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Poetry, short story collections

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  • Signs of Other Fires (Five Islands Press, c2001) ISBN 0-86418-728-9
  • Joyflight (Interactive Press, 2004) ISBN 1-876819-26-X API review
  • Dark Roots (Scribe, 2006) ISBN 1-920769-99-4 review
  • Crucible and Other Poems (Picaro Press, 2006)
  • The Taste of River Water (Scribe, 2011) ISBN 978-1-921844-00-3
  • Like a House on Fire (Scribe, 2012) Kennedy, Cate (2012), Like a house on fire, Brunswick, Vic. Scribe, ISBN 978-1-922070-06-7

Selected short stories

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Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Cold snap 2006 2006
Doisneau's kiss 2014 Kennedy, Cate (September 2014). "Doisneau's kiss". Australian Book Review. 364: 54–57.

Novels

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Edited

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  • Labour of love : tales from the world of midwives, with Amanda Tattam (Macmillan, 2005)
  • Love & desire : four modern Australian novellas (Five Mile Press, 2007)
  • The best Australian stories 2011 (Black Inc, 2011)
  • Australian love stories (Inkerman & Blunt, 2014)

Memoirs

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References

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  1. ^ "Cate Kennedy". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  2. ^ Kizilos, Katherine (22 August 2005). "The richer, the poorer". The Age.
  3. ^ "Cate Kennedy". Scribe Publications web site.
  4. ^ The Stella Prize 2013 Shortlist Archived 28 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015
  5. ^ ""Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011"". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 15 May 2024.

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