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Kris Bertin

Kris Bertin

Canadian writer

Kris Bertin is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Bad Things Happen won the 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award[1] and the 2017 ReLit Award for Short Fiction.[2]

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Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia,[3] he was a longlisted Journey Prize nominee in 2012 for his short story "Is Alive and Can Move".[3] His work has been published in The Malahat Review, Prism International, The New Quarterly and The Antigonish Review.[3]

Bad Things Happen was published in 2016 by Biblioasis.[4] His first graphic novel The Case of the Missing Men, illustrated by Alexander Forbes, was published by Conundrum Press in 2017.[5]

His second short story collection, Use Your Imagination!, was shortlisted for the 2020 ReLit Award for fiction.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Halifax author Kris Bertin wins $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Penticton Herald, June 3, 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Kris Bertin wins ReLit Award for short story collection Bad Things Happen". CBC Books, July 16, 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Author Kris Bertin seeks connections". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, October 7, 2012.
  4. [4]
    "Bad Things Happen, by Kris Bertin". Quill & Quire, March 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Review: Bertin and Forbes’s The Case of the Missing Men is densely detailed". The Globe and Mail, February 22, 2018.
  6. [6]
    "38 books shortlisted for 2020 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, April 27, 2021.



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