Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author

Author

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 of digital

Digital art

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 fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

 currently lecturing at De Montfort University

De Montfort University

De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...

, England

England

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. She was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia

Cranbrook, British Columbia

Cranbrook, British Columbia is a city in southeast British Columbia, located on the west side of the Kootenay River at its confluence with the St. Mary's River, It is the largest urban centre in the region known as the East Kootenay. As of 2006, Cranbrook's population is 18,267, and the...

, and went to high school on Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast of North America between 1791 and 1794...

. She dropped out of McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

, Montreal

Montreal

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 after a year and a half and subsequently worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

. She then traveled and eventually settled in London

London

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, where she currently resides.

Pullinger won the 2009 Governor General's Award for her novel The Mistress of Nothing, a fictionalized tale of Sally Naldrett, lady's maid to Lady Duff Gordon

Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon

Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon was an English writer. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt and Letters from the Cape. She had TB and in 1851 went to South Africa for the 'climate' which she hoped would help her health, living near the Cape of Good Hope for several years before travelling to Egypt...

, who traveled with her mistress to Egypt in Victorian times. Her earlier books include the novels When the Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Kissing End? (1992), The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996), Weird Sister (1999) and A Little Stranger (2004 in Canada and 2006 in the UK), as well as the short story collections, Tiny Lies (1988) and My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison (1997). She co-wrote the novelization of the film The Piano

The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...

with director Jane Campion

Jane Campion

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.

Pullinger also writes for film

Film

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 and for the digital media. Her most recent digital works are Flight Paths (2007-), a "networked novel" created in collaboration with worldwide participants, and Inanimate Alice (2005-), a series of multimedia

Multimedia

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 novels, both created with writer/artist Chris Joseph

Chris Joseph (writer/artist)

Chris Joseph is British/Canadian multimedia writer and artist who also creates work under the name 'babel'. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and now lives in London, UK....

 (babel), and The Breathing Wall (2004), an experimental fiction that responds to the reader's rate of breathing, made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and babel.
Pullinger was the lead writer on the 24hr Book Project, a project to write, edit and produce a novel in 24 hours, which was managed by CompletelyNovel.com

CompletelyNovel

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 in collaboration with if:book (a book industry think tank), the Society of Young Publishers

Society of young publishers

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 and Spread the Word (a writer development agency).

Pullinger has been writer-in-residence at the Battersea Arts Centre

Battersea Arts Centre

The Battersea Arts Centre is a performance space near Clapham Junction in Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth that specialises in music and theatre productions.-History:...

, the University of Reading

University of Reading

The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...

, the prisons HMP Gartree and HMP Maidstone

Maidstone (HM Prison)

HM Prison Maidstone is a Category C men's prison, located in Maidstone, Kent, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.-History:...

, and in Maidstone

Maidstone

Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town linking Maidstone to Rochester and the Thames Estuary. Historically, the river was a source and route for much of the town's trade. Maidstone was the centre of the agricultural...

 itself. She was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Writing Fellow at Jesus College

Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...

, University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, 1995/96 and the Visiting Writing Fellow at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University

London Metropolitan University

London Metropolitan University , located in London, England, was formed on 1 August 2002 by the amalgamation of the University of North London and the London Guildhall University . The University has campuses in the City of London and in the London Borough of Islington.The University operates its...

, 2001/03. She was Research Fellow for The trAce Online Writing Centre Arts and Humanities Research Board project, Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, where she investigated new forms of electronic narrative, 2002/03. She currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University

De Montfort University

De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...

, Leicester

Leicester

Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...

, UK where she is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media. She is also a member of the Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) group at De Montfort researching transliteracy

Transliteracy

Transliteracy is The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. The modern meaning of the term combines literacy with the prefix trans-, which means "across;...

. She is currently the Royal Literary Fund Virtual Fellow.

External links

• Kate Pullinger
• Kate Pullinger entry at British Council
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