Aritha van Herk

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Aritha van Herk (1979)

Aritha van Herk (born May 26, 1954 in Wetaskiwin ) is a Canadian writer.

She was born in Wetaskiwin near Edmonton , Alberta. Her parents and her three older siblings had emigrated from the Netherlands and come to Canada a few years earlier .

She grew up bilingual, namely Dutch and English. Her family's immigration experience and European background shaped her writing. Finding a home is important in most of her works. Her books are about strong women who break out of given role models.

Aritha van Herk has written eight books, four of them novels. The other books are difficult to classify because they are mostly a mixture of autobiography , literary criticism , history or descriptions of places . The author tries to evade categorization and would like to make it difficult for literary critics to classify her works. She has published a large number of short stories and critical essays and is the editor or co-editor of numerous books.

Her works have been translated into numerous languages, the first three novels also into German.

Van Herk has been teaching creative writing at the University of Calgary for a number of years .

Works

  • Judith. 1978 (Seal Book Award)
    • Übers. Eva Grün: All my pigs. Zsolnay, 1979; Rowohlt, 1982
  • The tent peg . 1981
    • Übers. Werner Richter: Among men. Rowohlt, 1987
    • Übers. Werner Richter: Mackenzie's cook. Zsolnay, 1983; dtv, 1999
  • No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey . 1986
    • Übers. Stefanie Kovacic: Address unknown. A pathetic journey. Zsolnay, 1987; Rowohlt again, 1989
  • Restlessness . 1998

(fictional) literary criticism a. Ä.

  • In Visible Ink. 1991
  • A frozen tongue. 1992
  • Places Far From Ellesmere: Explorations on Site: A Geografictione. 1990
  • Mavericks: An Incorrigble History of Alberta . 2001

literature

  • Petra Wittke-Rüdiger: "Forget the map. Northern geography in the literary work of Aritha van Herk, in literary cartography of the north of Canada. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, pp. 262 - 379 (about" The tent peg "," No fixed address "and" Places far from Ellesmere "each in their own sections. Available in Google Books )
  • Ekaterina Kozlova: Landscapes of Mobility in Aritha van Herk's "No Fixed Address" and Ruth Ozeki 's "A Tale for the Time Being". Master's thesis at the Chair of Caroline Rosenthal , University of Jena
    • dies .: Movement beyond roads and writing beyond fiction. An interview with Aritha van Herk. Journal for Canada Studies , 69, 2019, pp. 118–128

Web links

notes

  1. ↑ The story of a young woman who disguises herself as a man in order to be able to work as a cook in a remote geology camp in the north of Canada.
  2. ↑ The story of Arachne Manteias, who, as an underwear seller, drives back and forth across the Canadian prairie in her black vintage car and finally disappears in the north of Canada.
  3. ↑ The story of Dorcas hiring a killer to have herself killed for failing to commit suicide. In a reversal of the Scheherazade story, her killer lets her tell stories all night. The novel is also a reflection on the city of Calgary .
  4. ↑ Mixture of literary criticism and fiction
  5. ↑ Mixture of literary criticism and fiction
  6. ↑ Fiction called "Geografictione" by the author, which combines a travelogue, a description of the arctic Ellesmere Island and a feminist literary criticism by Tolstoy's Anna Karenina .
  7. ↑ further materials, u. a. the author's archive, via the library homepage, search function
personal data
SURNAME Herk, Aritha van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetaskiwin