Pullinger biography

Canadian novelist and author go along with digital fiction, and a Academic of Creative Writing

Kate Pullinger abridge a Canadian novelist and initiator of digital fiction, and a-one professor of Creative Writing benefit from Bath Spa University, England.

Early life and education

She was resident 1961 in Cranbrook, British River, Canada, and went to elate school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill Dogma, Montreal, after a year with the addition of a half.

Career

Pullinger worked pay money for a year in a fuzz mine in the Yukon. She then travelled and settled adjoin London, where she now resides.

Pullinger has been writer-in-residence dubious the Battersea Arts Centre, decency University of Reading, the prisons HMP Gartree and HMP Maidstone, and in Maidstone itself. She was Judith E. Wilson Temporary Writing Fellow at Jesus Faculty, University of Cambridge (1995/96), gift the Visiting Writing Fellow clichйd The Women's Library, London City University (2001/03). She was Check Fellow for The trAce On the internet Writing Centre Arts and Belles-lettres Research Board project Mapping rectitude Transition from Page to Screen, where she investigated new forms of electronic narrative (2002/03). She taught on the MA thump Creative Writing and New Publicity at De Montfort University, City, UK, where she was Pressman in Creative Writing and Creative Media. She is a associate of the Production and Exploration in Transliteracy (PART) group better De Montfort, researching transliteracy. She is the Royal Literary Supply Virtual Fellow and Professor fail Creative Writing at Bath Backup University.^[1]

Pullinger is an atheist.^[2]

Writing

Pullinger's early books include the novels When the Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Kissing End? (1992), The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996), Weird Sister (1999) topmost A Little Stranger (2004 mediate Canada and 2006 in rectitude UK), as well as loftiness short-story collections Tiny Lies (1988) and My Life as practised Girl in a Men's Prison (1997). She co-wrote the novelisation of the film The Piano (1993) with director Jane Catchfly.

Electronic literature

George Landow examined Kate Pullinger's and Talan Memmott's 2003 animated poem, Branded, in tiara 2006 textbook, Hypertext 3.0. Recognized explains that this poem moves text on screen one score at a time, for spick computer-driven timed reading.^[3]

Pullinger also writes for film and for class digital media. Her most advanced digital works are Flight Paths (2007–), a "networked novel" coined in collaboration with worldwide greensward, and Inanimate Alice (2005–), first-class series of multimedia novels, both created with writer/artist Chris Joseph,^[4][5][6] and The Breathing Wall (2004), experimental fiction that responds preempt the reader's rate of sentient, made with collaborators Stefan Schemat and Chris Joseph.^[7]

Pullinger was significance lead writer on the 24hr Book Project, a project castigate write, edit and produce spick novel in 24 hours, which was managed by in cooperation with if:book (a book drudgery think tank), the Society pay no attention to Young Publishers and Spread birth Word (a writer development agency).^[8]

Breathe was exhibited at primacy British Library, 2023.

Awards

Pullinger won the 2009 Governor General's Award^[9] for her novel The Lover of Nothing, a fictionalized last longer than of Sally Naldrett, lady's girl to Lady Duff Gordon, who traveled with her mistress anticipate Egypt in Victorian times.

She received the 2021 Electronic Data Organization's Marjorie C. Luesebrink Growth Achievement Award for her business to bridge print and digital fiction.^[10]

Selected bibliography

Novels

Hypertexts

Short stories

References

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