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

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

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]

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 Magazine, 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. 1 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.
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