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Katherine Govier is the author of nine novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel, The Ghost Brush, is about the daughter of the famous Japanese printmaker, Hokusai, creator of The Great Wave. Her novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003.

Katherine's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the United Kingdom, 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 (1997) and the Toronto Book Award (1992). Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 542 ratings · 152 reviews · 18 distinct works · Similar authors
The Printmaker's Daughter
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
Three Views Of Crystal Water
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
Creation
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
The Ghost Brush
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Angel Walk
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 37 ratings3 editions
Fables of Brunswick Avenue:...
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Without a Guide: Contempora...
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
Immaculate Conception Photo...
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
The Truth Teller
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
Between Men
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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December 2011, Katherine Govier
"Her Favorite Gifts for History Buffs: Know an armchair historian? Try these recs from the author of The Printmaker's Daughter, about an unsung Japanese artist." ...More

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I love this book. I'm reading it little by little, over the last few months. The prose is so crisp and clean. The stories are unique; no one else writes like this. Very Manhattan, but not showy. I'll write more later.
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Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips
" Jayne Anne Phillips is one of my favourite contemporary authors. When I was very young, I read Black Tickets and was blown away by the beauty and power of her work.

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New Finnish Grammar
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I just picked this up in the Brisbane airport. It is translated from SPanish, not sure it's published in Canada. But what an interesting meditation on language! I really enjoyed it. Some passages are the sort that you want to stop and read over again...more
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"Janet Flammang sounds terrific. Yes I love Joanne Harris too. Many great suggestions here, time to get down to this!"
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"Hi Kendall Yes I have it, got it for Christmas, and have been looking sideways at it. First I read Eva Stachniak's novel THE WINTER PALACE, about Cath...more "
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“Pictures and words don't hurt anyone, except for those who are afraid of history.”
Katherine Govier, The Printmaker's Daughter

“What if . . . you come to the wild and discover that it is not wild at all? What if half the world is here before you?”
Katherine Govier, Creation

“It is a simple thing, a name. We are given one, we grow in to it, we bear it. Simple for the rest of creation.”
Katherine Govier, Creation

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Autumn Brady I enjoyed your book The Printmaker's Daughter a great deal. I always enjoyed her father's work and it was interesting to read about his daughter Oei and the possibilities!


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