Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt (born 1975) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. He was born on Vancouver Island at Sidney, British Columbia,[1] and later lived in California and Washington state; he currently lives in Portland, Oregon.[2]

His first book, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel (2009), was named a New York Times Editors' Choice book. His second, The Sisters Brothers (2011), was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize,[3] the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[4] and the 2011 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.[5] He was one of two Canadian writers, alongside Esi Edugyan, to make all four award lists in 2011.[3] On 1 November 2011, he was announced as the winner of the Rogers Prize,[6] and on 15 November 2011, he was announced as the winner of Canada's 2011 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.[7] On 26 April 2012, the novel won the 2012 Stephen Leacock Award. Alongside Edugyan, The Sisters Brothers was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.[8] The Sisters Brothers was adapted as a film released in 2018.

His third novel, Undermajordomo Minor, was published in 2015.[9] The novel was longlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[10]

DeWitt's most recent novel, French Exit, was published in August 2018 by Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.[11][12] The book was named as a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Giller Prize.[13] He wrote the screenplay for the 2020 film of the same name.