January Magazine
January Magazine
Kathy Page is the UK/Canadian author of eight novels, including The Story of My Face, short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002; Alphabet , nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2005, and The Find , short-listed for a ReLit award in 2011. Her most recent novel, Dear Evelyn , won the 2018 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. The jury citation reads:
“Kathy Page’s Dear Evelyn tells the tender and unsettling story of working-class Londoner Harry Miles and the ambitious Evelyn Hill who fall in love as the world around them goes to war. What initially begins as a familiar wartime love story morphs into a startling tale of time’s impact on love and family, as well as one’s complex search for personal meaning and truth. By integrating themes that are universally understood by readers and skillfully crafting endearing characters that surprise and delight, P
Page also writes short fiction. It’s collected in Paradise & Elsewhere , 2014, and The Two of Us , 2016, both of which were nominated for Canada’s Giller Prize. She has written script for radio, TV and film and her non-fiction has appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies.
January Magazine
January Magazine