Occupation Novelist Name Kathy Page Notable works The Find | Genre novel, short story Nationality British/Canadian Role Writer | |
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Nominations Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Books Paradise and Elsewhere, The Story of My Face, Frankie Styne and the Silver, The Find, Island Paradise | ||
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Kathy Page (born April 8, 1958) is a British writer known for the novels The Story of My Face, Alphabet, The Find, and Paradise and Elsewhere.
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- The christ child s lullaby christmas 2008 jim kathy page
- Kathy page introducing her new novel the find
- Early life
- Career
- Prizes and honours
- Oaming with kathy page
- References
Kathy page introducing her new novel the find
Early life
Kathy Page was born on April 8, 1958 in London, U.K. She has an Honours BA in English and Related Literature from the University of York, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In the late 1990s, she trained as a psychotherapist and worked briefly in a therapeutic community for drug users. She currently resides on Salt Spring Island with her husband, and two children.
Career
Page's 2002 book The Story of My Face, which was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the U.K. Alphabet, published in 2005, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award in Canada in 2005. The novel The Find was published in April 2010 and was shortlisted for the ReLit Award in 2011. Her novel Paradise and Elsewhere, a collection of short stories, was published in June 2014.
Page has also worked as a university lecturer (University of London), distance learning tutor (Open College of the Arts, in the U.K.), writer in residence (University of Vaasa, Finland, among others), writing workshop instructor (Banff Centre) and carpenter/joiner. She moved with her family to Saltspring Island, British Columbia, in 2001. She teaches fiction at Vancouver Island University.