Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria.
Life and career Kennedy was born in 1963 in England at Louth, Lincolnshire. She was educated at the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. She has taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne.
Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for The Age fiction prize 2010 and the ASA Barbara Jefferis Award 2010, among others. She is a short-story writer whose work has twice won The Age Short Story Competition and has appeared in a range of publications, including The New Yorker. Her collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires. Her book The Taste of River Water: New and Selected Poems by Cate Kennedy, which was published in May 2011, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry.
Awards
2013: Steele Rudd Award. Winner for Like a House on Fire 2013: The Stella PrizeThe Stella Prize 2013 Shortlist , The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015 Shortlisted for Like a House on Fire 2011: Victorian Premier's Literary Award C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry Winner for The Taste of River Water 2004: IP Picks. Winner for Joyflight 2004: Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition. Winner 2002: The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize for Signs of Other Fires 2001 Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Highly Commended for Signs of Other Fires 2000 & 2001: The Age Short Story Award 1997: ANUTECH Literary Prize. Short Story Winner for White Flight 1996 & 1997: HQ/HarperCollins Short Story Competition. Shortlisted 1994 & 1995: Scarlett Stiletto. Winner
Other awards: The Herald/Sun Short Story Award
The 2007 Sisters in Crime Scarlett Stiletto Awards include a category named for Kennedy: "The Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent ($350)"
Bibliography
Novels The World Beneath (Scribe, 2009) ISBN 978-1-921372-96-4
Short fiction Collections Dark Roots, (Scribe, 2006) ISBN 1-920769-99-4 review Like a House on Fire, (Scribe, 2012) ISBN 978-1-922070-06-7 Selected short stories TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotesCold snap2006??? Dark Roots Reprinted as "Black ice" in The New YorkerFive dollar family2009Doisneau's kiss2014 Anthologies (edited) Labour of Love : Tales from the World of Midwives, with Amanda Tattam (Macmillan, 2005) Love & Desire : Four Modern Australian Novellas (Five Mile Press, 2007) The Best Australian Stories 2011 (Black Inc, 2011) Australian Love Stories (Inkerman & Blunt, 2014)
Poetry Collections Signs of Other Fires, (Five Islands Press, c2001) ISBN 0-86418-728-9 Joyflight (Interactive Press, 2004) ISBN 1-876819-26-X API review Crucible and Other Poems, (Picaro Press, 2006) The Taste of River Water, (Scribe, 2011) ISBN 978-1-921844-00-3
Memoirs Sing, and Don't Cry : a Mexican Journal, (Transit Lounge, 2005) ISBN 0-9750228-1-4
References
Sources "Canberra Writers win ANUTECH Competition", in The ANU Reporter, Vol. 28 No. 12
External links Cate Kennedy, Scribe Publications Accessed 17 July 2007 Di Morrissey and Cate Kennedy in conversation with Richard Fidler, ABC The Backyard, 6 November 2006 Hagemann, Helen "Review of Joyflight" in API Network, June 2005 Cate Kennedy bio for Booked Out Agency Accessed: 2007-07-23 Sullivan, Jane (2006) "Back to her roots" in The Age 2006-09-14 Accessed: 2007-07-23