Katherine Govier (edit name/settings)

Katherine Govier is an award-winning novelist with a special interest in historical figures that are artists. Her novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in english in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and throughout the Commonwealth; and in translation in Holland, Italy, Turkey, and Slovenia. She is the winner of Canada 's Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career (1997) and the Toronto Book Award (1992).

She is the author of 9 novels and 3 short story collections, and she is the editor of two collections of travel essays.

Her most recent novel, The Ghost Brush, brings a great, lost woman artist to life—Oei, the great Japanese artist Hokusai's daughter—and exposes the process by which she was subtracted from history.

This fall you can find me at a number of different events in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia where I will be reading from The Ghost Brush. In October I will be appearing at Wordfest Calgary on the 16th at 12 pm, at the Literary Kaleidoscope in the Bow Valley (Canmore, Alberta) on the 21st at 7 pm, and at the Vancouver International Writers Festival with David Mitchell on the 23rd at 10:30 am and 2 pm. On November 1st at 7:30 pm I will be reading at the International Festival of Authors in Parry Sound.