Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod , OC , (born July 20, 1936 in North Battleford , Saskatchewan , † April 20, 2014 in Windsor , Ontario ) was a Canadian writer who won the IMPAC Prize in 2001 for his novel Land der Trees ( No Great Mischief ) and was nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize .
Life
To finance his education, MacLeod worked as a lumberjack, miner and fisherman. In the summer he wrote short stories in a hut on the St-Lorenz-Strom, in the winter he previously taught as a professor of English literature at the University of Windsor . The island is best known as a short story volume.
His only novel Land der Trees was published in 1999 and won the well-known IMPAC Prize. The tension-free narrative style also earned criticism; Hellmuth Karasek, for example, dismissed the novel as that of a “ Canadian Rosegger ” at “Reader's Digest Level”.
In 2008 MacLeod was named “Officer of the Order of Canada ”. He died in Windsor, Ontario in April 2014.
Works
- Übers. Brigitte Jakobeit : Land of Trees . (No great mischief) S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 9783100488138 (novel)
- Excerpt from the night drive across the ice. A reminder of Cape Breton, in: Canada for hand luggage. Stories and reports. A cultural compass. (Anthology) Ed. Anke Caroline Burger . Unionsverlag , Zurich 2010, rev. New edition 2018, pp. 144–152
- Übers. Brigitte Jakobeit: The island . Stories. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 9783100488145 About Cape Breton Island (= The Island. The Collected Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod , 2000; first in the anthology The Lost Salt Gift of Blood , 1976)
- Übers. Elfi Schneidbach: Das Boot, in: Columbus and the giant lady. Structure atv, Berlin 1992, pp. 125 - 147 ( The Boat , 1969; German also contained in Die Insel )
- The Return, in: Contemporary Canadian Short Stories. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990 (in Engl.)
Web links
- Literature by and about Alistair MacLeod in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alistair MacLeod in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Alistair MacLeod at perlentaucher.de
- Margalit Fox: Alistair MacLeod, a Novelist in No Hurry, Dies at 77. In: The New York Times , April 23, 2014 (English)
- The return , short story (synopsis)
Individual evidence
- ^ Literary Quartet , broadcast on June 22, 2001
- ^ Alistair MacLeod ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- ↑ A trip from Montreal to my grandparents in Cape Breton is disappointing and is canceled after a week.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacLeod, Alistair |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | North Battleford , Saskatchewan |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 2014 |
| Place of death | Windsor, Ontario |