Catherine Hunter
Catherine Hunter's most recent publication is the poetry collection St. Boniface Elegies, which won Manitoba's Lansdowne Prize and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her other works include three previous books of poems, including Latent Heat, which won the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award; the novel After Light, which was a finalist for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, and the High Plains Book Award for Best Woman Writer; and the novella In the First Early Days of My Death , which was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. In addition to these titles published with Signature Editions, she has also published several mysteries with Ravenstone/Turnstone, and recorded a spoken word CD (Rush Hour, from Cyclops Press, with a bonus track by The Weakerthans). Her writing has appeared in the literary journals The Malahat Review, Prism International, Essays on Canadian Writing, Matrix, West Coast Line, Prairie Fire, CV2, and Grain, and the anthologies The Echoing Years: Contemporary Poetry from Canada and Ireland; Post Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry; Best Canadian Poems 2013; Best Canadian Poems 2015; and (forthcoming) Best Canadian Poems 2019. She edited Exposed, an anthology of five new women poets, and Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier, and for ten years she was the editor of The Muses' Company poetry press. Catherine recently retired from thirty years of teaching English and Creative Writing at the University of Winnipeg.
Audio
Sunday, October 13
Winnipeg
CBC
Poet and English professor Catherine Hunter has been named a finalist for the prestigious award. Her collection of poetry, "St Boniface Elegies", deals with many themes, particularly the recent death of her husband Ron, making the recognition bittersweet.
Listen to the full interview here:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-367-the-weekend-morning-show-manitoba/clip/15741076-winnipeg-poet-named-as-finalist-for-the-governor-general-literary-awards
(7:50)
Audio
Wednesday, December 2
Winnipeg
CKUW
Catherine Hunter is interviewed by CKUW's Ron Robinson about her new novel, After Light.
(MP3 file, 8:52)
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The finalists for the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Awards were announced Wednesday, with two Winnipeg authors making the cut. Winnipeg’s Joan Thomas has been nominated in the fiction category for “Five Wives.” Catherine Hunter, also from Winnipeg, has been nominated in the poetry category for “St. Boniface Elegies.” The Canada Council for the Arts said 70 books across seven categories have been deemed the best books published in Canada this year. About 1,400 were submitted to a peer assessment committee for consideration. “By addressing issues we care about, igniting our imaginations, choosing the right words or brilliantly transposing a story into illustrations, the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists stoke the fire not only of our shared cultural life, but of our individual lives as well. They represent the richness, strength and excellence of Canadian literature,” said Simon Brault, director and CEO of the Canadian Council for the Arts, in a news release. According to HarperCollins, Thomas’ Five Wives is based on a true story and follows the lives of five missionary women forced to survive with their children in an Ecuador rainforest in the 1950s, after their husbands were killed. Hunter’s publisher describes her book as a four-part exploration of “a poet’s relationships with her family and her community.” The 14 winners will be announced on Oct. 29, and a ceremony to celebrate will be held on Dec. 12.
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