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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]
Kean was born in Wales, and is of Welsh, Irish, English and Bajan heritage. She is based in Cardiff. [1]
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]
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Catrin Kean | |
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Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Welsh |
Genre | Fiction |
Notable works |
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Notable awards |
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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]
Kean was born in Wales, and is of Welsh, Irish, English and Bajan heritage. She is based in Cardiff. [1]
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]
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