about
Pauline Holdstock is an award winning Canadian author, originally from the UK. She writes literary fiction, essays and poetry. Her novels have been published in the UK, the US, Brazil, Portugal, Australia and Germany. In Canada, her work has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Best First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the Scotiabank Prize, Beyond Measure, and The Hunter and the Wild Girl were all placed on the annual Best Books lists of national newspapers. Beyond Measure was the winner of the BC Book Prize Ethel Wilson Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Pauline’s essays and book reviews appear in Canada’s national newspapers and have been broadcast on CBC radio. Her essay Ship of Fools won first place in the Prairie Fire Personal Journalism Prize. Her novella The World of Light Where We Live won The Malahat Novella Contest.
Pauline has served on faculty of the Victoria School of Writing, the University of Victoria, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Current projects include a new novel set in the UK and a new collection of short fiction.
Contact Pauline here.
read interviews
FoundPress
The Malahat Review
ABCBookworld
Or listen to her live-to air conversation with Bill Richardson:
Vancouver Writersfest