Anne of Canal

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Anne von Canal (born June 29, 1973 in Siegen ) is a German writer and translator . She lives in Hamburg and Winningen on the Moselle .

Life

Anne von Canal studied Scandinavian, German and English in Freiburg im Breisgau. She then completed a traineeship at the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch and then worked as an editor for the Lübbe publishing group and the Rowohlt publishing house. In 2008 she started her own business as a freelance translator from Norwegian and Swedish.

Her literary debut The Reason appeared in 2014 . The novel received high recognition from the press and readers and was described as an impressive debut. Against the background of the Swedish bourgeoisie in the 1960s and the historical developments in the Baltic States in the 1990s, as well as the ferry accident on the Estonia , the novel deals with the question of how often a person can start over. The reason has been translated into Estonian, French and Latvian.

Anne von Canal was a scholarship holder at the Baltic Center for Writers and Translators , the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst and the Fondation Heinrich & Jane Ledig-Rowohlt .

She traveled to the Arctic to research her novel Whiteout and was a guest at the AWIPEV research station of the Alfred Wegener Institute . In addition, she received a work grant from the German Literature Fund for Whiteout . The novel was selected by NDR as “Book of the Month” and praised as an atmospheric novel “that illuminates the ephemeral nature of our relationships and dreams”.

Works

  • The reason. Novel. Mareverlag , Hamburg 2014.
  • Snow angel. In: A world of snow. Arche Verlag , Hamburg 2015.
  • Somewhere in the green sea. Stories of islands. Anthology. Ed. Anne of Canal, Isabel Bogdan . Arche, Hamburg 2016
  • Good news. In: Somewhere in the green sea. Stories of islands. Arche, Hamburg 2016
  • Whiteout. Novel. Mareverlag, Hamburg 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reviews of the novel Der Grund on perlentaucher.de, accessed on May 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ Book review of the novel Der Grund on kaffehausbesitzer.de , accessed on May 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ List of the German Literature Fund's scholarship holders , accessed on May 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Book review of the novel Whiteout on femundo.de , accessed on March 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Canal, Anne of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins