Catrin Kean
Catrin Kean | |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Genre | Fiction |
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Catrin Kean or Catrin Clarke is a Welsh writer. Her debut novel Salt won the Wales Book of the Year in 2021.[1] Writing as Catrin Clarke, she won a BAFTA Cymru award for screenwriting in 2003 for her work on the BBC Wales drama Belonging.[2]
Early life
[edit]Kean was born in Wales, and is of Welsh, Irish, English and Bajan heritage. She is based in Cardiff.[1]
Career
[edit]Kean is a scriptwriter who has written for film, television and radio,[3] with credits including Casualty, Mistresses and Wolfblood.[4]
Kean's first novel Salt was published by Gomer Press in 2020. The novel tells the story of the author's Welsh great-grandmother Ellen meeting and marrying her great-grandfather Samuel, a ship’s cook from Barbados, in 1878 and subsequently travelling with him at sea.[1][5] Dealing with themes of racism, class and British hegemony, Salt was praised by Nation.Cymru as 'a novel for our times' in light of the Black Lives Matter movement,[6] while Wales Arts Review called it 'a gripping love story of significant cultural importance...set against the intergenerational, inherited trauma caused by slavery and colonialism.'[7] At the 2021 Wales Book of the Year Awards, Salt won the 'triple crown': taking the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award and the overall prize for Wales Book of the Year.[8][5]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Salt (2020)
Short fiction
[edit]- Dust. Vol. 8. Riptide. 2013. p. 81. ISBN 9780955832666.[9]
- Blue. Vol. 5. The Ghastling. February 2017. pp. 46–49. ISBN 9780993499128.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)[10] - Birdcage. Vol. 7. The Ghastling. April 2018. pp. 65–70. ISBN 9780993499142.[11]
- Fogtime. Vol. 8. The Ghastling. October 2018. pp. 56–58. ISBN 9780993499159.[12]
- Sirens. Vol. 10. The Ghastling. October 2019. pp. 56–61. ISBN 9780993499180.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Tale of love and loss at sea wins Book of the Year prize". The National Wales. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "Cymru in 2003 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Price, Karen (12 April 2015). "25 writers who have received bursaries from Literature Wales". WalesOnline. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "Catrin Clarke". Gemma Hirst Associates. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Catrin Kean yn cipio coron driphlyg Gwobr Saesneg Llyfr y Flwyddyn 2021". Golwg360 (in Welsh). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ "Review: Salt forces us to recognise the length and depth of the shadow of our past". Nation.Cymru. 11 July 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Pearson, Gemma (12 August 2020). "Salt by Catrin Kean | Book Review". Wales Arts Review. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "Wales Book of the Year 2021 Winners Announced". Wales Arts Review. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Volume 8". Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "The Ghastling: Book Five". The Ghastling. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "The Ghastling: Book Seven". The Ghastling. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "The Ghastling: Book Eight". The Ghastling. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "The Ghastling: Book Ten". The Ghastling. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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