Elisabeth Vonarburg

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Elisabeth Vonarburg (2013)

Élisabeth Ferron-Wehrlin Morché Vonarburg (born August 5, 1947 in Paris ) is a French-Canadian writer and translator of science fiction and fantasy who has received numerous awards for her work.

Life

Élisabeth Ferron-Wehrlin studied humanities at the University of Dijon , wrote a master's thesis on a science fiction topic, in 1972 she passed the state examination in modern literature and then worked for a short time as a teacher. In 1973 she emigrated to Canada and settled in Québec . In 1987 she did her doctorate in creative writing and from then on lived as a freelance writer in Chicoutimi near Saguenay .

In 1974 she began working on the science fiction magazine Requiem , which was later renamed Solaris , and from the end of 1976 she published her first stories there, initially in collaboration with her then husband Jean-Joël Vonarburg. In 1978, her story L'Oeil de la nuit won the Prix ​​Dagon, awarded by Requiem . In 1979 she organized the first Congrès Boréal in Chicoutimi . At the Prix ​​Boreal , which has been awarded annually in various categories at this convention , she herself has won several awards in the categories of novels, short stories and for her critical contributions. Also in 1979, she hosted the first of a series of workshops for SF writers that continued through the late 1980s and revived in 2004. Vonarburg was the editor of Solaris magazine from 1983 to 1986 . In 1987 she won the Prix ​​Aurora for the first time for her work at Solaris and for her services to SF literature and SF fandom .

Her first novel, Le Silence de la cité , was published in 1981 , and the following year it won the two most prestigious French science fiction prizes, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the Prix ​​Rosny aîné . In Le Silence de la cité , the protagonist Elisa is the last offspring of a decadent society of almost immortal scientists who, in a Europe of the distant future, have buried themselves in a closed underground city, while the surrounding wilderness is populated by barbaric mutants. Elisa, a product of genetic experiments endowed with special gifts and powers, leaves the city to give humanity a new beginning.

The successor volume Chroniques du Pays des Mères was awarded the Prix Aurora, the Prix Boreal and the Prix ​​Jacques-Brossard . Both novels have been translated into German as The Silent City and The Maerlande Chronicles . Besides these two, there are only a few stories by Vonarburg that have appeared in German translation. The novels form the Maerlande cycle, which also includes a number of short stories that appeared in the collections L'œil de la nuit (1980) and Janus (1984).

The Tyranaël cycle, published from 1996 to 1997, is one of Vonarburg's main works, in which the history of two planets and two peoples over several centuries unfolds in five volumes. Reine de Mémoire , published in five volumes from 2005 to 2007, is a fantasy cycle.

From 1979 Vonarburg also appeared as a translator, starting with Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree junior , followed by over 40 translated novels and numerous short stories, with the emphasis on fantasy authors, namely Guy Gavriel Kay , Marion Zimmer Bradley and Marie Bilodeau .

Awards

  • 1978 Prix ​​Dagon for the story L'Oeil de la nuit
  • 1981 Prix ​​Boréal for critical work
  • 1982 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire , Prix ​​Rosny aîné and Prix Boréal for the novel Le Silence de la cité
  • 1982 Prix Boréal for the series of articles Écrire de la SF in Solaris
  • 1987 Prix ​​Aurora for her work at Solaris
  • 1987 Prix Aurora for the story La Carte du Tendre
  • 1990 Prix Aurora for the story Cogito
  • 1991 Prix Aurora for the novel Histoire de la Princesse et du Dragon
  • 1991 Prix Aurora for the story Ici, des tigres
  • 1992 Prix Aurora for the novel Ailleurs et au Japon
  • 1993 Prix Aurora and Prix Boréal for the novel Chroniques du Pays des Mères
  • 1993 Prix Boréal for critical work
  • 1993 Prix ​​Jacques-Brossard for Chanson pour une sirène , Chroniques du Pays des Mères , Initiatiques and … Suspends ton vol
  • 1996 Prix Aurora for the novel Les Voyageurs malgré eux
  • 1996 Prix Boréal for critical work
  • 1997 Prix Boréal for the story Le Début du cercle
  • 1997 Prix Boréal for the novel Les Rêves de la mer
  • 1997 Prix Jacques-Brossard for Le début du cercle , Le jeu de la perfection and Les rêves de la mer
  • 1998 Prix du Conseil Quebecois de la Femme en Litterature
  • 2001 Prix Boréal for the story Les Dents du dragon
  • 2004 Prix Aurora for the story La Course de Kathryn
  • 2006 Prix Boréal for the novel La Maison d'Oubli
  • 2006 Prix Jacques-Brossard for Reine de Mémoire
  • 2007 Prix Aurora for the novel La Princesse de vengeance
  • 2007 Prix ​​Cyrano for life's work
  • 2011 Prix Aurora for En vol
  • 2013 Prix ​​Hommage visionnaire
  • 2015 Prix Aurora for the Roman Hôtel Olympia
  • 2018 Prix ​​Utopiales européen (Special Prize)

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Maerlande (series of novels)
  • 1 Le silence de la cité (1981)
  • 2 Chroniques du pays des mères (1992)
Tyranaël (series of novels)
  • 1 Les rêves de la mer (1996)
  • 2 Le jeu de la perfection (1996)
  • 3 Mon frère l'ombre (1997)
  • 4 L'autre rivage (1997)
  • 5 La mer allée avec le soleil (1997)
  • Contes de Tyranaël (1994, short stories)
Reine de Mémoire (series of novels)
  • 1 La maison d'oubli (2005)
  • 2 le dragon de feu (2005)
  • 3 le dragon fou (2006)
  • 4 La princesse de vengeance (2006)
  • 5 La maison d'équité (2007)
Les Pierres et les Roses (series of novels)
  • 1 La voie des pierres (2018)
  • 2 La voie des roses (2018)
  • 3 La balance et le sablier (2018)
Single novels
  • Histoire de la princesse et du dragon (1990)
  • Les contes de la Chatte Rouge (1993)
  • Les voyageurs malgré eux (1994)
  • Hotel Olympia (2014)
Collections
  • L'œil de la nuit (1980)
  • Janus (1984)
  • Ailleurs et au Japon (1991)
  • Sang de pierre (1999)
  • La maison au bord de la mer (2000)
  • Slow Engines of Time [English] (2000)
  • Le jeu des coquilles de Nautilus (2003)
  • Blood Out of a Stone [English] (2009)
  • La musique du soleil (2013)
Anthology (as editor)
  • Tesseracts Q (1996, English, with Jane Brierley)
Non-fiction
  • Comment écrire des histoires (1986)
  • Boréal 10 (1988, with Jean-Guy Boivin)
Short stories
  • Paradise Glossed (1976, with Jean-Joël Vonarburg)
  • La Femme à rebours (1977, with Jean-Joël Vonarburg)
  • Conte de pierre haute (1978, with Jean-Joël Vonarburg)
  • L'œil de la nuit (1978)
  • Marée haute (1978)
    • German: flood. In: Maxim Jakubowski (Ed.): Quasar 2. Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22019), 1980, ISBN 3-404-22019-6 .
  • Eon (1980)
  • Géhenne (1980)
  • Janus (1980)
  • Le pont du froid (1980)
  • Le nœud (1980)
  • La maudite (1980, with René Beaulieu)
  • L'oiseau de cendres (1982)
  • Dans la fosse (1983)
  • Oneïros (1984)
  • Band Without End (1984)
    • German: band without end. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Annual Volume 1996. Heyne SF&F # 5398, 1996, ISBN 3-453-09459-X .
  • La machine lente du temps (1984)
    • German: The defaulting time machine. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The defaulting time machine. Heyne SF&F # 5645, 1997, ISBN 3-453-11905-3 .
  • Thalassa (1984)
  • La maison au bord de la mer (1985)
  • La carte du Tendre (1986)
  • Le jeu des coquilles de Nautilus (1986)
  • Les yeux ouverts (1986)
  • Le dormeur dans le cristal (1986, also as Sabine Verreault)
  • Ailleurs et au Japon (1986, also as Sabine Verreault)
  • Le matin du magicien (1987)
  • Retour sur Colonie (1987, with Joël Champetier)
  • Cogito (1988)
  • Mourir, un peu (1989)
  • Ici, des tigres (1990)
  • La mer allée ... (1990)
  • Celles qui vivent au-dessus des nuages (1991)
  • L'aile (1991)
  • ... Suspends ton vol (1992)
  • Chanson pour une sirène (1992, with Yves Meynard)
  • Paguyn et Kithulai (1994)
  • Les poligloti (1995)
  • La révélation (1996)
  • Le debut du cercle (1996)
  • Le musée de l'impermanence (1997)
  • Aurélie sous les étoiles (1998)
  • Le langage de la nuit (1999)
  • Sang de pierre (1999)
  • Terminus (1999)
  • Les dents du dragon (2000)
  • La course de Kathryn (2003)
  • Les villes invisibles (2008)
  • Héritages (2009, graphic story)
  • La voix qui chantait le coeur du monde (2009)
  • La mort aux dés (2009)
  • L'amour au temps des chimères (2013)
  • La musique du soleil (2013)
  • Les enfants d'Icara (2013)
  • Les portes du monde (2018)
  • Mane, Tekel, Phares
    • German: Mane, Tekel, Phares. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Annual Volume 1997. Heyne SF&F # 5648, 1997, ISBN 3-453-11910-X .
Translations
  • James Tiptree, Jr .: Par-delà les murs du monde (1979, Up the Walls of the World , 1978)
  • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro : Fausse aurore (1980, False dawn , 1978)
  • Ian Watson : Chronomachine lente (1981, The Very Slow Time Machine , 1979)
  • Jayge Carr : L'Abîme de Léviathan (1982, Leviathan's Deep , 1979)
  • Tanith Lee : Le Jour la nuit (1982, Day by Night , 1980)
  • Jack Laurence Chalker : Et le diable vous emporte (1984, And the devil will drag you under , 1979)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay : L'Arbre de l'été (1994, The Summer Tree , 1984)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: La Route obscure (1995, The darkest road , 1986)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Le Feu vagabond (1995, The Wandering Fire , 1986)
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley : La Chute d'Atlantis (1995, The Fall of Atlantis , 1987)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: La Voie obscure (1997, The darkest road , 1986)
  • Thomas Tryon : Noire magic (1997, Night Magic , 1995)
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley & Holly Lisle : En Glenravenne (1998, Glenraven , 1996)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Les Lions d'Al-Rassan (1999, The Lions of Al-Rassan , 1995)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Le Chemin de Sarance (2001, Sailing to Sarantium , 1998)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Le Seigneur des Empereurs (2001, The Sarantine Mosaic: Lord of Emperors , 2000)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Seigneur des Empereurs (2002, The Sarantine Mosaic: Lord of Emperors , 2000)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Voile vers Sarance (2002, Sailing to Sarantium , 1998)
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley & Holly Lisle : Glenravenne (2003, Glenraven , 1996)
  • Sean Stewart : Le Jeu de la passion (2003, Passion Play )
  • Jude Fisher : L'Éveil de la magie (2004, Sorcery Rising , 2002)
  • Marie Jakober : Le Calice noir (2004, The Black Chalice , 2000)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Le Dernier rayon du soleil (2005, The Last Light of the Sun , 2004)
  • Jude Fisher: Magic Sauvage (2006, Wild Magic , 2003)
  • Marie Jakober: Même les pierres ... (2006, Even the Stones , 2004)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Ysabel (2007)
  • Jude Fisher: Le Sanctuaire (2007, The Rose of the World , 2005)
  • Adam Roberts : Gradisil (2008, Gradisil , 2007)
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch : Les Disparus (2008, The Disappeared , 2002)
  • Linda Nagata : Aux Marges de la Vision (2008, Limit of Vision , 2001)
  • Carol Berg : L'Esclave (2009, Transformation , 2000)
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Extrêmes (2009, Extremes , 2003)
  • Claude Lalumiere : Odyssées chimériques (2011)
  • Robert Jackson Bennett : Mr. Shivers (2011, Mr. Shivers , 2010)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Sous le ciel (2012, Under Heaven , 2010)
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley: La Vague montante (2013, The Climbing Wave , 1955)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Le Fleuve des étoiles (2014, River of Stars , 2013)
  • Marie Bilodeau : Le Sang de Mirial (2016, Destiny's Blood , 2010)
  • Marie Bilodeau: La Chute de Mirial (2016, Destiny's Fall , 2012)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: Enfants de la Terre et du Ciel (2017, Children of Earth and Sky , 2016)
  • Guy Gavriel Kay: La Tapisserie de Fionavar - L'intégrale (2017)
  • Marie Bilodeau: La Guerre de Mirial (2017, Destiny's War , 2014)

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personal data
SURNAME Vonarburg, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vonarburg, Élisabeth Ferron-Wehrlin Morché (full name); Ferron-Wehrlin, Élisabeth (maiden name); Verreault, Sabine (pseudonym); Vonarburg, Catherine (pseudonym); Von Arburg, Elisabeth (pseudonym); Gavra-Bourthes, Isabel (pseudonym); Zabeth, Lili (pseudonym); Artbert, Yvonne (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris