Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt
Born Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Occupation Writer
Nationality Canadian
Period 2000s-present
Notable works The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt (born 1975) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and later lived in California and Washington state. He lives in Portland, Oregon.[1]

His first book, Ablutions (2009), was named a New York Times Editors' Choice book. His second, The Sisters Brothers (2011), was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize[2] the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize[3] and the 2011 Governor General's Award for English language fiction.[4] He was one of two Canadian writers, alongside Esi Edugyan, to make all four award lists in 2011.[2] On 1 November 2011, he was announced as the winner of the Rogers Prize,[5] and on 15 November 2011, he was announced as the winner of Canada's 2011 Governor General's Award for English language fiction.[6] On 26 April 2012, the book The Sisters Brothers won the 2012 Stephen Leacock Award. Alongside Edugyan, The Sisters Brothers was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.[7] The Sisters Brothers has been adapted as a film to be released in 2018.

His third novel, Undermajordomo Minor, was published in 2015.[8] The novel was longlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[9]

DeWitt's most recent novel, French Exit, was published in August 2018 by Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.[10][11] The book was named as a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Giller Prize.[12]

Bibliography

Novels

Nonfiction

  • Help Yourself Help Yourself (2007)

Screenplays

References

  1. ↑ Mesh, Aaron (3 August 2011). "Hotseat: Patrick deWitt". Willamette Week. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  2. 1 2 "DeWitt and Edugyan add Giller nods to Booker nominations" Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine.. The Globe and Mail, 4 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Booker nominees Edugyan, deWitt make shortlist for Writers' Trust prize". The Globe and Mail, 28 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award" Archived 4 January 2013 at Archive.is. Toronto Star, 11 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Patrick deWitt’s 'The Sisters Brothers' wins Writers’ Trust Prize". The Globe and Mail, 1 November 2011.
  6. ↑ "Patrick DeWitt wins Governor General Literary Award for Sisters Brothers" Archived 22 November 2011 at Archive-It. National Post, 16 November 2011.
  7. ↑ "Edugyan and deWitt face off in yet another literary contest". The Globe and Mail, 4 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "Patrick deWitt: fame, horses, and his new novel". Quill & Quire, September 2015.
  9. ↑ The Scotiabank Giller Prize Presents Its 2015 Longlist
  10. ↑ "French Exit - Patrick deWitt". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  11. ↑ "Book Marks reviews of French Exit by Patrick DeWitt". bookmarks.reviews. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  12. ↑ "Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt among finalists for $100,000 Giller Prize". Toronto Star, October 1, 2018.


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