Catrin Kean

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]

Catrin Kean
OccupationWriter
NationalityWelsh
GenreFiction
Notable works
  • Salt (2020)
Notable awards

Early life

Kean was born in Wales, and is of Welsh, Irish and Bajan heritage. She is based in Cardiff.[1]

Career

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]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Salt (2020)

Short fiction
  • Dust. Vol. 8. Riptide. 2013. p. 81. ISBN 9780955832666.[9]
  • Blue. Vol. 5. The Ghastling. February 2017. pp. 46–49. ISBN 9780993499128.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)[10]
  • Birdcage. Vol. 7. The Ghastling. April 2018. pp. 65–70. ISBN 9780993499142.[11]
  • Fogtime. Vol. 8. The Ghastling. October 2018. pp. 56–58. ISBN 9780993499159.[12]
  • Sirens. Vol. 10. The Ghastling. October 2019. pp. 56–61. ISBN 9780993499180.[13]

References
  1. "Tale of love and loss at sea wins Book of the Year prize". The National Wales. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  2. "Cymru in 2003 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  3. Price, Karen (12 April 2015). "25 writers who have received bursaries from Literature Wales". WalesOnline. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  4. "Catrin Clarke". Gemma Hirst Associates. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  5. "Catrin Kean yn cipio coron driphlyg Gwobr Saesneg Llyfr y Flwyddyn 2021". Golwg360 (in Welsh). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  6. "Review: Salt forces us to recognise the length and depth of the shadow of our past". Nation.Cymru. 11 July 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  7. Pearson, Gemma (12 August 2020). "Salt by Catrin Kean | Book Review". Wales Arts Review. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  8. "Wales Book of the Year 2021 Winners Announced". Wales Arts Review. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  9. "Volume 8". Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  10. "The Ghastling: Book Five". The Ghastling. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  11. "The Ghastling: Book Seven". The Ghastling. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  12. "The Ghastling: Book Eight". The Ghastling. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  13. "The Ghastling: Book Ten". The Ghastling. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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