Barbara Gowdy

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Barbara Gowdy, 2017

Barbara Gowdy (born June 25, 1950 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a Canadian English-language writer .

Life

Gowdy grew up in Windsor, and since 1954 in Toronto . She studied music ( piano ) and theater studies at York University and the Royal Conservatory of Music. She worked as a publishing editor at Lester and Orpen Dennys and taught creative writing at the University of Toronto . She also conducted interviews for TVOntario . She has been working as a freelance writer since 1979.

Gowdy's work deals with the outsiders of society with a conscious look at the extreme, the alien and the abnormal.

Gowdy lives in Toronto with her family. Her longtime partner is the writer Christopher Dewdney .

Works

Novels and short stories
  • Through the Green Valley . Novel. 1988
  • Falling Angels . Novel. 1989
  • So We Seldom Look on Love . Stories. 1992
  • Mr. Sandman . 1995
    • Translator Ulrike Becker, Claus Varrelmann: Mister Sandman. Kunstmann, Munich 1995 ISBN 3-88897-154-3
  • The white bone . Novel. 1998
    • Übers. Ulrike Becker, Claus Varrelmann: The white bone. Kunstmann, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-88897-219-1
  • The Romantic . Novel. 2003
  • Helpless . Novel 2007
  • Little Sister . Novel. Tin House, 2017
    • Übers. Ulrike Becker: Little sister. Kunstmann, 2017
Scripts
  • Green door . 2007, directed by Semi Chellas

Film adaptations

  • Kissed (1996, based on We So Seldom Look On Love ; directed by Lynne Stopkewich)
  • A Feeling Called Glory (2000; Director: Coreen Mayrs)
  • Falling Angels (2002, directed by Scott Smith)

Awards

Web links

notes

  1. ↑ Becker in the translator database of the VdÜ
personal data
SURNAME Gowdy, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor, Ontario