About Claire Battershill
Born 1986. Claire Battershill is a Canadian writer, literary scholar, university teacher, man of letters, scholar of English and bibliologist.
Claire Battershill is a Canadian fiction writer and literary scholar. On September 15, 2017, Battershill was honoured by receiving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Talent Award from Governor General David Johnston.
Battershill's collection of short stories, Circus, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2014. The title story had won the CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction in 2008. The book won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, was a co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the PEN International New Voices Award. 2017: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Talent Award
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Claire Battershill was born in 1986 in Dawson Creek.
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Claire Battershill is a writer, literary scholar, university teacher, man of letters, scholar of English and bibliologist.
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