Allen Roy Evans

Allen Evans is a redirect to this article. For other people, see Allan Evans .

Allen Roy Evans , also Allan Roy Evans , (* 1885 Napanee , Ontario ; † 1965 ) was a Canadian author.

He grew up on a farm in Manitoba, Canada. After some time as a high school teacher, he set up a consulting and marketing service for writers in Vancouver from 1937 . He has published several novels, a volume of poetry and short stories. Almost all of his works are set in the far north. "The Train of the Reindeer" is his best known novel.

Works (selection)

• Bitter-sweet. Poems. 1933
• Attu. Translated from Theodor Kauer. Zsolnay & Rowohlt, 1961 (Orig .: The Aleutian Story. )
• A happy couple. Translated by Carl Pidoll. Zsolnay, 1956; Rowohlt, 1958 ( All in a Twilight. W. Lock, 1948)
• Wind over white waves. A factual novel. Translated from Heinrich Bohn. Zsolnay, 1954; Rowohlt, 1958 ( Northward Ho! Home & Van Thal, 1947)
• The train of the reindeer. (also: ... reindeer .) Translated by Richard Hoffmann . Zsolnay, 1951; Rowohlt, 1952; further ed. at Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft , Gutenberg Book Guild ( Reindeer Trek. Hurst & Blackett, 1935)
• Dream out of dust: A tale of the Canadian prairies. narrative

literature

• Walter E. Riedel: The literary image of Canada . Bouvier, Cologne 1980, pp. 40f. (Summary of Evans' Where the Wild Geese Fly, 1964, and A Happy Couple , 1956. The 1964 volume consists of 2 separate novels: The Saga of Catherine and The Dream of the South )

Web links

• Literature by and about Allen Roy Evans in the catalog of the German National Library