Claire Battershill

Claire Battershill
Claire Battershill at Simon Fraser University in 2017
Battershill at SFU in 2017
Born Dawson Creek, British Columbia
Occupation Short story writer, academic
Nationality Canadian
Period 2010s–present
Notable works Circus

Claire Battershill is a Canadian fiction writer and literary scholar.[1]

Her collection of short stories, Circus, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2014. The title story won the CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction.[1] The book won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize,[2] was a co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award,[1] and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award[3] and the PEN International New Voices Award.[1]

She holds a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Oxford and a PhD in book history and English literature from the University of Toronto. She publishes academically on the literary history and culture of the 20th century, especially on Virginia Woolf and her publishing house, the Hogarth Press.[4]

She was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and is the sister of novelist Andrew Battershill.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The storyteller: Claire Battershill". Quill & Quire, January 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire. July 8, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Danuta Gleed Literary Award shortlist revealed". CBC Books, May 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Postdoc Profile: Claire Battershill, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow - Graduate Studies & Postdoctoral Fellows - Simon Fraser University". Retrieved September 28, 2016.



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