Link to the Show / Show Notes(last night at Art Matters)
Kate
Pullinger is a novelist who also writes for film and various digital
platforms. Born in Cranbrook British Columbia she went to high school
on Vancouver Island, dropped out of McGill University,
worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon, traveled, and
eventually settled in London. Pullinger has written two short story
collections; her novels include When the Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Kissing End? (1992), A Little Stranger and most recently The Mistress of Nothing which has just won Canadaâs GG Literary Award for best English Fiction (to be awarded this evening).
She has lectured and taught at, among other institutions: the Battersea Arts Centre, the University of Reading, and Cambridge University, as well as in various prisons. She currently teaches Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester.
The Mistress of Nothing (2009),
takes its inspiration from the life of Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon, and is
set in nineteenth-century Egypt. I met with Kate yesterday afternoon.
Among other things we talk about what itâs like to win the GG, class
structures, and the future of the book (check out her website here). Please listen here:
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