Aislinn Hunter

Aislinn Hunter (born October 6, 1969 in Belleville , Ontario ) is a Canadian writer .

Life

Aislinn Hunter studied art and history at the University of Victoria . She received her masters degree in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and her masters degree in political science from the University of Edinburgh . She currently teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and is doing her doctorate on a subject on thingness, especially with Martin Heidegger , at the University of Edinburgh.

Hunter made her debut as a writer in 2001 with her two novels, Into the Early Hours and What's Left Us . Her third novel Stay , which was published in 2002, was filmed in 2013 by the German filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld .

For Stay, she was shortlisted by the Canadian Books in Canada First Novel Award . She was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past . In 2015 she received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her book The World Before Us .

Works (selection)

Into the Early Hours , Polestar, 2001, ISBN 1-55192-498-6
What's Left Us , Raincoast 2001, ISBN 1-55192-412-9
- French translation by Carole Noël : Ce qu'il nous reste ISBN 2-922868-17-6
Stay , Raincoast 2002, ISBN 1-55192-568-0
The Possible Past , Polestar 2004, ISBN 1-55192-721-7
A Peepshow with Views of the Interior , Palimpsest Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-9784917-6-5
The World Before Us , Hogarth: London, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-5534185-2-1

Awards and nominations

1996: Nomination, Journey Prize
1996: Nomination, National Book Award (fiction)
2000: Nomination, National Magazine Award
2002: Gerald Lampert Award , Into the Early Hours
2002: Shortlist , Danuta Gleed Literary Award , What's Left Us
2002: Nomination, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize , Into the Early Hours
2003: Nomination, Books in Canada / Amazon First Novel Award , Stay
2002: Shortlist, ReLit Award , What's Left Us
2004: Shortlist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize , The Possible Past
2004: Shortlist, Pat Lowther Award , The Possible Past
2004: Shortlist, ReLit Prize for Poetry , The Possible Past
2015: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize , The World Before Us

Web links

Aislinn Hunter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Official website
Aislinn Hunter, PhD (In-Progress): Instructor of Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University , in-sightjournal.com

Individual evidence

↑ Tracy Sherlock: Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize . In: The Vancouver Sun . April 26, 2015. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Hunter, Aislinn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belleville , Ontario , Canada

[1] Tracy Sherlock: Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize . In: The Vancouver Sun . April 26, 2015. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2016.