Claudia Maria Cornwall

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Claudia Maria Cornwall (* 1948 in Shanghai , Republic of China ) is a Canadian author and journalist who second with her, autobiographical dominated nonfiction, Letter from Vienna: A Daughter uncovers her family's Jewish Past , 1996 to the BC Book Prizes belonging Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and a 2009 Journalism Prize from the Canadian Institute of Health Research.

Life

Claudia Maria Cornwall was born Claudia Maria Wiener in Shanghai in 1948 and came to Canada with her parents in 1949 , where she was baptized in the spirit of the Anglican Church . She grew up in Vancouver and studied philosophy at the University of British Columbia and the University of Calgary . There she completed her Ph.D. with the thesis The evolution of persons . 1975 onwards.

She subsequently worked as a freelance journalist and writer who published in The Globe and Mail , Reader's Digest (within Canadian, international and Chinese editions), BC Business and the online magazine Tyee . Her first book: Print-Outs: The Adventures of a Rebel Computer (1982), was a fantasy story for children and young people.

For a long time, her parents withheld information about her family history in Austria . Only a letter to an uncle in Vienna , whom she asked for a picture of her father Walter Wiener, did his answer reveal the further truth. Her grandmother died in a concentration camp , her parents were actually of Jewish origin. In the following years she collected the letters from within her family, the official papers, the pocket calendar of her grandfather Willy Frensdorff, interviewed the remaining members and undertook research trips to Germany and Austria in order to reunite the family. On the basis of this preliminary work, the book Letter from Vienna: A Daughter Uncovers her Family's Jewish Past , which was positively received by critics and received internationally, was created in 1995 , which won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize the following year .

In March 2009, Cornwall received a Canadian Institute of Health Research award, endowed with Canadian dollars, to support her series of articles on health care and research. This series culminated in her sixth book project entitled Catching cancer: the quest for its viral and bacterial causes , which was published in March 2013.

In the following years, the author stayed with her book publications with her focus on biographies of cultural workers from the Vancouver area, around 2011 with the biography of the well-known personality Curt Lang , a photographer and businessman with a beatnik background, At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver, 1937–1998 to celebrate another, more significant book success. With this literary work, she benefited indirectly from her husband's twelve-year friendship with Curt Lang, who had also been his business partner for a time, and the technical skills of her brother Greg, who helped her with the processing of Lang's photographic estate . This book was also received positively by literary criticism, as it opened up the biography and the complete photographic works of the sitter on the one hand and illuminated the cultural and economic history of Vancouver over 40 years on the other. The work was then nominated for the Vancouver Book Award 2012.

Claudia Maria Cornwall teaches ethical and legal literary courses and creative memoir writing seminars at Simon Fraser University and Douglas College.

The writer is married to Gordon Cornwall and has a daughter and a son who also work at a university.

plant

  • The evolution of persons. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Calgary, 1975.
  • Print-outs: The adventures of a rebel computer. Nerve Press, Vancouver, BC 1982.
  • Letter from Vienna: a daughter uncovers her family's Jewish past. Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver 1995, ISBN 1-55054-115-3 .
  • Eve Lazarus ; Claudia Maria Cornwall; Wendy Newbold Patterson : The life and art of Frank Molnar, Jack Hardman, LeRoy Jensen. Mother Tongue Pub., Salt Spring Island, BC 2009, ISBN 978-1-896949-02-4 .
  • At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver, 1937–1998. Preface by David Beers, Introduction by Greg Lang, Mother Tongue Publishing, Salt Spring Island, BC 2011, ISBN 978-1-896949-17-8 .
  • Catching cancer: the quest for its viral and bacterial causes. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-1-4422-1522-1 .

Reviews

on At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver.
  • “To characterize At the World's Edge as an oral history of Vancouver, supplemented by Lang's own poems and photos, comes close to describing this book and its importance to those interested in what (also) happened in the city between 1950 and 1990. But given Cornwall's note-perfect attention to detail and her seamless arrangement of the voices Lang sang with, a “choral history” might be more accurate. ”-“ By describing At the World's Edge as the oral history of Vancouver, accompanied by Lang's own poems and Photographs, one comes very close to the book and, above all, its significance for all those who are also interested in what happened in the city between 1950 and 1990. But in view of Cornwall's less than perfect treatment of the details and their seamless arrangement of the voices of contemporary witnesses, with which Lang sings to a certain extent, choral history would probably be the more appropriate characterization. "
  • "More than a biography, At the World's Edge is a detective story in which Cornwall investigates a man, and a kind of life, she deems elemental. The author knew Lang in his later years and, she being a gifted reporter, decided to go back and gather his story in order to retrieve glimpses of a Vancouver that now is all but polished from view “. - “More than a biography, At the World's Edge is a detective story in which Cornwall examines a man and his way of life, which she fundamentally values. The author knew Lang in his later years and, as a talented journalist, decided to jump back and forth in the chronology of history to unembellish the changes for today's Vancouver. "
  • "Cornwall's book tells that story as well as it could be told; it sheds new light on the history of BC business, especially where it overlapped with Beatnik life ". - “Cornwall's book tells the story as well as it can be told; it sheds new light on British Columbia's economic history , especially where it overlaps with beatnik culture. "

Web links

Awards and nominations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e www.claudiacornwall.com/about-claudia . Accessed September 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Peter Kuckuk : Passages to the Far East: People between Bremen and East Asia. Edition Temmen (= contributions to the social history of Bremen, vol. 23) Bremen 2004, p. 156.
  3. ^ Peter Kuckuk: Passages to the Far East: People between Bremen and East Asia. Edition Temmen (= contributions to the social history of Bremen, vol. 23) Bremen 2004, p. 157.
  4. ^ Book Reviews - Holocaust and Genocide Studies . Accessed September 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ Reception: Efraim Safe (Ed.): Breaking Crystal: Memory and Writing after Auschwitz. University of Illinois Press, Urbana et al. a. 1998, p. 16.
  6. ^ Frieda Forman, Cynthia Maier (Women's Educational Resources Center, University of Toronto): Jewish Women's Voices: Past and Present. A Bibliography. In: Women in Judaism. A multidisciplinary journal. Vol. 1, No. 1. 1997. Accessed September 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ Vera K. Fast: Children's Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport. IBTauris Publishers, London 2010, p. 237.
  8. ^ Bronia Sunshine, Dan J. Sunshine: Victory Over Nazism: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey. Memory Press, Vancouver 1999, p. 41 and P. 137.
  9. ↑ www.canadianauthors.net. Awards 1996. Accessed September 25, 2012.
  10. ^ Entry Claudia Cornwall . On: www.leckeragency. Accessed September 25, 2012.
  11. ↑ rowman.com
  12. ^ Claudia Cornwall . On: ABCbookworld.com. Accessed September 26, 2012.
  13. ↑ http://www.douglas.bc.ca/programs/print-futures/diploma-program/faculty.html
  14. ^ Writing Matters, Douglas College, 2009 . Accessed September 25, 2012.
  15. ↑ h-net.msu.edu/
  16. ↑ Presentation and review summary . On: www.artsland.com. December 1, 2011. Accessed September 25, 2012.
  17. ↑ Michael Turner : Vancouver Re-Remembered. In: GEIST . 2011. Accessed September 26, 2012.
  18. ^ David Beers: A Bohemian Vancouver, Lost and Found. Claudia Cornwall's bio of Curt Lang retrieves a past much friendlier to creative vagabonds. In: The Tyee. BC's Home for News, Culture and Solutions . November 2, 2011. Accessed September 26, 2012.
  19. ^ Bill Jeffries: At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver, 1937-1998 by Claudia Cornwall. ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bcstudies.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: BC Studies. The British Columbian Quaterly . Accessed September 26, 2012.
  20. ^ City of Vancouver Book Award . On: vancouver.ca. Accessed September 26, 2012.
  21. ^ City of Vancouver Book Award announces shortlist. ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: Quill & Quire . September 13, 2012. Accessed September 26, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.quillandquire.com
personal data
SURNAME Cornwall, Claudia Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornwall, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai , Republic of China