Carol Birch

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Carol Birch (* 1951 in Manchester ) is a British writer .

Life

Carol Birch studied English and American studies at Keele University from 1968 to 1972 . After graduating, she went to London to work for the English Folk Dance and Song Society . A short time later she moved with her husband to Western Ireland, where she wrote her first novel Life in the Palace , for which she won the David Higham Award for best debut of the year. With her second novel The Fog Line (dt .: At the edge of dawn ), she won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize .

Birch returned to London after eight years, but her stay in Ireland continued to have thematic influence on her work, such as in Songs of the West , where she describes life in a small Irish village, or in The Naming of Eliza Quinn , in which she addresses the great famine in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century.

With her current and now 11th novel Jamrach's Menagerie (Eng .: The Breath of the World ) Birch was on the shortlist of the Man Booker Prize 2011, the most important British literary prize.

She currently lives in Lancaster with her family .

Publications

  • Life in the Palace . Novel. 1988.
  • The Fog Line . Novel. 1989.
  • The unmaking . Novel. 1992.
  • Songs of the West . Novel. 1994.
    • German: Frau am Meer . Translated from the English by Mechtild Sandberg-Ciletti, dtv, Munich 1996.
  • Little Sister . Novel. 1998.
    • German: The lost sister . Translated from the English by Mechtild Sandberg-Ciletti, dtv, Munich 2004.
  • Come back, Paddy Riley . Novel. 1999.
  • Turn Again Home . Novel. 2003.
  • In a certain light . Novel. 2004.
  • The Naming of Eliza Quinn . Novel. 2005.
  • Scapegallows . Novel. 2007.
  • Jamrach's menagerie . Novel. 2011.

literature

  • Jürgen Heizmann: The shipwreck as revenge of creation in “Jamrach's Menagerie” by Carol Birch. In: distress at sea, shipwrecks, enemy waterworks. Maritime spellings of endangerment and sinking. By Hans Richard Brittnacher a. Achim Küpper. Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3237-9 , pp. 107–122.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Early Students Publications - Keele University. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 9, 2010 ; Retrieved July 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keele.ac.uk
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themanbookerprize.com
  3. ↑ http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/carol_birch_8702.html
personal data
SURNAME Birch, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester