Michelle Winters

Michelle Winters is a Canadian writer, translator and artist.[1]

Michelle Winters
Born1972
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
OccupationNovelist, playwright, translator
NationalityCanadian
Genrenovels, plays

Winters was born in 1972 in Saint John, New Brunswick. As a founding member of Just in a Bowl Productions,[2] she has co-written and performed in Unsinkable (2000)[3] and The Hungarian Suicide Duel (2002).[4] Her short stories have appeared in This Magazine, Taddle Creek, Dragnet and Matrix, and made her a nominee for the 2011 Journey Prize for short fiction.[5] In 2017 she received a shortlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination for her debut novel I Am a Truck.[6][7]

She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.[2]

Publications
  • I Am a Truck (novel), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2016 ISBN 978-1-9267-4378-3
  • “The Canadian Grotesque”, in: Taddle Creek, No. 30 (Summer 2013).
  • “Maintenance to six”, in: Dragnet Magazin, No. 8 (2013).
  • “Toupée”, in: Sharon Bala et al. (ed.), The Journey Prize Stories 30: The Best of Canada's New Writers, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-0-7710-5075-6

Translations
  • Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Daniil and Vanya (Daniil et Vanya), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2020 ISBN 978-1-9887-8457-1
  • Marie-Ève Comtois, My Planet of Kites (Je Te Trouve Belle Mon Homme), transl. with Stuart Ross, Mansfield Press, Toronto 2014, ISBN 978-1-7712-6061-9

Theatrical works
  • The Hungarian Suicide Duel with Lori Delorme, Just in a Bowl Productions 2002.
  • Unsinkable with Lori Delorme, Just in a Bowl Productions 2000.

References
  1. "Road-trip books combine destiny and destination". Toronto Star, December 17, 2016.
  2. Michelle Winters, alllitup.ca, retrieved May 18, 2020.
  3. Unsinkable, theatermania.com (2000), retrieved May 18, 2020.
  4. Jon Kaplan and Glenn Sumi, Fringe Festival Listings, nowtoronto.com (11. July 2002), retrieved May 18, 2020.
  5. Michelle Colistro, April 22: Stacey May Fowles, Liisa Ladouceur and Michelle Winters, pivotreadings.wordpress.com (April 9, 2009), retrieved May 18, 2020.
  6. "5 finalists for 2017 Giller Prize revealed". CBC News, October 2, 2017.
  7. 2017 Finalists, scotiabankgillerprize.ca (2017), retrieved May 18, 2020.
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