Kate Pullinger
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Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, lecturing at De Montfort University, England. 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 and subsequently worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon. She then travelled and settled in London, where she now resides.
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Career
Pullinger won the 2009 Governor General's Award[1] 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. 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.
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,[2][3][4] and The Breathing Wall (2004), experimental fiction that responds to the reader's rate of breathing, made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and Chris Joseph.[5]
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).[6]
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 teaches on the MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, where she is 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.[7]
Pullinger is an atheist.[8]
Selected bibliography
Novels
- When the Monster Dies (1989)
- The Piano (1994)
- The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996)
- Weird Sister (1999)
- A Little Stranger (2006)
- The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
- Landing Gear (2014)
- Forest Green (2020)
Short stories
- Tiny Lies (1988)
- My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997)
References
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External links
- Kate Pullinger
- Kate Pullinger biography at British Council Literature
- Dr Kate Pullinger page at De Montfort University, Leicester
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- ↑ Kate Pullinger, "Extremadura's Moorish tendency", The Independent, 18 November 1989, Weekend Travel, p. 49.
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- 1961 births
- Living people
- Academics of Bath Spa University
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian women novelists
- Writers from British Columbia
- Academics of De Montfort University
- People from Cranbrook, British Columbia
- Electronic literature
- Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian atheists