Andrew Battershill is a Canadian writer,[1] whose debut novel Pillow was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize[2] and the Sunburst Award,[3] and a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, in 2016.
Andrew Battershill | |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2010s–present |
Notable works | Pillow |
Spouse | Suzannah Showler |
He was cofounder with Jeremy Hanson-Finger of the online literary magazine Dragnet Magazine.[4]
He won the 2019 ReLit Award for fiction for his novel Marry, Bang, Kill.[5]
Originally from British Columbia, he studied creative writing at the University of Toronto, and served as the 2017-2018 Writer-in-Residence at the Regina Public Library.[6] He is the brother of writer Claire Battershill.
He currently resides in Vancouver with his wife, the poet and essayist Suzannah Showler, and will relocate to Regina to begin his residency on August 23, 2017.
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