Anna Smaill

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Anna Smaill (born April 1979 in Auckland , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand author, university lecturer, poet and former violinist. With The Sound of Memory , she won the World Fantasy Award 2016 in the "Best Novel" category.

Life

Smaill started playing the violin at the age of seven. She studied music for a year at New Zealand's University of Canterbury , but then lost confidence in her musical abilities and turned to writing. For another year of study she switched to English and music theory and graduated in 1998 with a bachelor's degree . For her Masters in English Literature she returned to Auckland, to the university there . In addition, she obtained a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington in 2001 . In the meantime she lived in Tokyo for two years . In 2009 she completed a Ph.D. in contemporary American poetry, which she began at University College London . She then taught creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire until 2012. In 2017 and 2018 she lectured at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Smaill is married to the writer Carl Shuker . They met in 2001 in the creative writing class at Victoria University of Wellington and have a daughter and a son.

Works

Fonts (selection)

  • "Beyond Analogy: Janet Frame's Fiction and Existential Thought", in: Framework (s): Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. Jan Cronin and Simone Drichel (Eds.), Amsterdam: Rodopi (2009)
  • "Audience and Awkwardness: Personal Poetry in Britain and New Zealand", in: Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry . Peter Robinson (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014)
  • "Anecdote in Post-1990s New Zealand Poetry", in: A History of New Zealand Literature . Mark Williams (Ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c James Kidd: Anna Smaill interview: When she thought music was her calling, writing struck a chord. The Independent , February 14, 2015, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Charlie Gates: Kiwi author's Booker novel partly inspired by Christchurch. stuff.co.nz, August 13, 2015, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Archived copy of your page at the university ( Memento from April 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Anna smaill: About - Anna smaill. In: annasmaill.com. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Caitlin Salter: Wellington author Anna Smaill gains world recognition. stuff.co.nz, August 5, 2015, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Smaill, Anna. read-nz.org, November 2016, accessed on September 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Diana Wichtel: Carl Shuker on his acclaimed Kiwi novel A Mistake. noted.co.nz, March 26, 2019, accessed September 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Smaill, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand poet, author and studied violinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland , New Zealand