Camilla Gibb

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Camilla Gibb, 2015

Camilla Gibb (born February 20, 1968 in London , United Kingdom ) is a Canadian writer from England who has lived in Toronto , Ontario for decades .

Life

Camilla Gibb was born in London, England and grew up in Toronto. There she attended the North Toronto Collegiate Institute and the Jarvis Collegiate Institute . She then studied at the American University in Cairo before she received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Middle East Studies from the University of Toronto and her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford . She left the university environment in 2000 to devote herself fully to writing.

Camilla Gibb already attracted attention with her first novella in 1999: Mouthing the Words ( What nobody talks about . 2001). In 2000 , the novel about repressed incest won the City of Toronto Book Award and in 2001 the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction. Gibbs second novel The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life was published in August 2002. Her third novel Sweetness in the Belly (2005) was directed against the suppression of the Ethiopian Revolution and is mainly set in the ancient walled city of Harar . The book was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2005 , on the longlist at the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards and won the Trillium Book Award for best work in Ontario in 2006.

Her fourth novel, The Beauty of Humanity Movement , was published in Canada in September, in the United States and the United Kingdom in spring 2011.

Her works have so far been translated into thirteen languages.

plant

  • Mouthing the Words . 1999.
    • What nobody talks about . From the English by Monika Schmalz, Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-442-76003-8 .
  • The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life . 2002
    • The story of Emma and Blue . From the English by Monika Schmalz, Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8333-0056-6 .
  • Sweetness in the Belly . Doubleday, Canada 2005, ISBN 0-385-66017-0 .
  • The Beauty of Humanity Movement . 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Canadian Who's Who . University of Toronto Press, 2004, p. 478.
  2. ↑ Prasanthi Vasanthakumar: Review: Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb. In: Quill & Quire . March 2005, accessed July 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gibb, Camilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer of English origin
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK