Michelle Winters

Michelle Winters (* 1972 in Saint John , New Brunswick ) is a Canadian writer and translator . She lives in Toronto .

Life and work

Winters is a founding member of Just in a Bowl Productions and co-wrote and performed on the plays Unsinkable (2000) and The Hungarian Suicide Duel (2002). Her short story Toupée was nominated for the Journey Prize in 2011 . Her debut novel I Am a Truck , published in 2016, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2017 . The novel takes up conflicts between Anglo- and Francophone cultures in Canada and satirically updates the leitmotif of the discourse-defining novel Two Solitudes (1945) by Hugh MacLennan .

Works (selection)

• I Am a Truck (Roman), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2016 ISBN 978-1-9267-4378-3
  • I am a vice , Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-8031-1352-8
• “The Canadian Grotesque”, in: Taddle Creek , No. 30 (Summer 2013).
• “Maintenance to six”, in: Dragnet Magazin , 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-Ève ​​Comtois, My Planet of Kites (Je Te Trouve Belle Mon Homme) with Stuart Ross, Mansfield Press, Toronto 2014, ISBN 978-1-7712-6061-9
• Marie-Hélène Larochelle, Daniil and Vanya (Daniil et Vanya), Invisible Publishing, Picton 2020 ISBN 978-1-9887-8457-1

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Michelle Winters at perlentaucher.de
• Author entry at Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , accessed on May 18, 2020.
• Author website , accessed on May 18, 2020.
• Texts by the author available online:
  • “Toupée” on: this.org (January 22, 2010), accessed on May 17, 2020 (English).
  • “The Canadian Grotesque” at: taddlecreekmag.com (2013), accessed May 17, 2020.
  • “Maintenance to six” on: cdn.shopify.com (July 2013), accessed on May 18, 2020 (PDF, English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michelle Colistro, April 22: Stacey May Fowles, Liisa Ladouceur and Michelle Winters , at: pivotreadings.wordpress.com (April 9, 2009), accessed May 17, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Author Post Michelle Winters on: alllitup.ca, accessed on 17 May 2020 (English).
3. ↑ Unsinkable , on: theatermania.com (July 11, 2002), accessed on May 18, 2020 (English).
4. ↑ Jon Kaplan and Glenn Sumi, Fringe Festival Listings , at: nowtoronto.com (July 11, 2002), accessed on May 18, 2020.
5. ↑ 2017 Finalists , on: scotiabankgillerprize.ca (2017), accessed on May 18, 2020 (English).
6. ↑ Author Michelle Winters , on: canadafbm2020.com (2020), accessed on May 17, 2020.
7. ↑ Jan Wiele, Je drive mon truck , on: faz.net (May 17, 2009), accessed on May 18, 2020.