Carol Shields

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Carol Shields ; born Warner , CC , OM , FRSC (born June 2, 1935 in Oak Park , Illinois , † July 16, 2003 in Victoria , British Columbia ) was a Canadian writer and poet .

Life

Carol Shields graduated from Hanover College , Indiana (USA) with a bachelor's degree in English philology in 1957 . In 1957 she married Donald Hugh Shields, engineer and later professor, with whom she emigrated to his native Canada.

After completing a creative writing course at the University of Toronto , she won a writing competition sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1965 . She became a Canadian citizen in 1971 and received her master’s degree with a thesis on Susanna Moodie from the University of Ottawa , where she became a professor. She also taught at the University of British Columbia , and the University of Manitoba , where she became University Chancellor in 1996. Shields was 1998 Officer of the Order of Canada , 2002 Companion of the Order of Canada appointed.

The Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence was first developed in spring 2002 thanks to your initiative. Led by the experienced author, a group of renowned British Columbia writers met with then- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia , Iona Campagnolo , to create a special provincial literary award. This meeting resulted in the establishment of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence , which, like all other seven literary prizes of the BC Book Prizes since 2004, has been awarded in April each year.

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For her debut novel Small Ceremonies , Shields received the Canadian Authors Association Prize in 1977. Her detective novel Mary Swann , which won the Arthur Ellis Award in 1988, was made into a film by Anna Benson Gyles in 1996. In 1993 her novel The Stone Diaries was published , which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for best novel in the year of publication . In 1990 she received the Marian Engel Award for her complete oeuvre . In 2003 she received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Unless .

Carol Shield's work is characterized by tracking down interesting details in the lives of simple people and in their relationships with one another. A main theme of Shields, for example in Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden , is women's friendships and the moral and intellectual inner world of women, especially women artists. Shields has repeatedly addressed the subject of marriage. Happenstance and A Fairly Conventional Woman are told alternately from the perspective of both spouses.

Works

Volumes of short stories
  • Various Miracles. (1986)
    • from it, transl. Ursula Flitner: Mrs. Turner mowing the lawn, in women in Canada. Stories and poems. dtv, Munich 1993, pp. 206-219 (from: Various Miracles , Stoddart General Publ., 1985)
  • The Orange Fish. (1989)
  • Dressing up for the Carnival. (2000)
  • The Collected Stories. (2004)
as a co-author
  • with David Helwig, Sandra Martin, Frances Itani , Carol Shields, Gwendolyn MacEwen, David Lewis Stein, Tom Marshall, Bonnie Burnard, Elizabeth Spencer, Nora Keeling; Héléne Holden; Robin Mathews; Audrey Callahan Thomas; Mavis Gallant : 84 best Canadian stories. Ed. David Helwig, Sandra Martin. Oberon Press, Ottawa 1984 ISBN 0-88750-545-7
Novels
  • Small ceremonies. (1976) Nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
  • The box garden. (1977)
    • Translator Minea Bauer: She and he - he and she: the novel of a perfectly normal marriage. Goldmann, 1991 (Happenstance, The husband's story; the wife's story, 1980)
  • A fairly conventional woman. (1982)
    • Transl. Margarete Längfeld: Mary Swann. Orlanda, 1993; TB Piper, 1995 (Swann: a mystery, 1987)
  • A celibate season. (1991, with Blanche Howard)
  • Übers. Elfi Hartenstein : The sweet tyranny of love. Goldmann, 1993 (The Republic of Love, 1992)
  • Übers. Margarete Längfeld: The Diary of Daisy Goodwill. Piper, Munich 1995 and others (The Stone diaries, 1993)
  • Übers. Margarete Längfeld: Everything about Larry. Piper, Munich 1999 (Larry's Party, 1998)
  • Übers. Margarete Längfeld: The history of Reta Winters. Piper, 2005 (Unless, 2002)
Volumes of poetry
  • Others. (1972)
  • Intersect. (1974)
  • Coming to Canada. (1992)
Dramas
  • Departures and arrivals. (1990; world premiere in Manitoba 1984)
  • Fashion, power, guilt. (1995, with Catherine Shields, their daughter)
  • Thirteen Hands. (1993; first performed in 1993 at the Winnipeg Prairie Theater Exchange)

literature

  • Patricia Irwin: Shields, Carol. In: Eugene Benson, William Toye (Eds.): The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. 2nd Ed. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001 ISBN 0-19-541167-6 .
  • Gudrun M. Grabher: Is Publication Suicide? The Loss of the Poet in Carol Shields's Swan . In: Doris Eibl, Gerhild Fuchs, Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner (eds.): Cultures à la dérive - cultures entre les rives: boundaries between cultures, media and genres; Festschrift for Ursula Mathis-Moser on her 60th birthday . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010, pp. 203–215
  • Gordon Bölling: History in the making. Metafiction in the more recent Anglo-Canadian historical novel. Winter, Heidelberg 2006, pp. 235-260. Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Cologne 2004
  • Verena Laschinger: Fictitious politics, factual prose. American Literature, Political Practice, and the Neorealist Novel. Peter Lang, Bern 2000. Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Munich 1999 (about The Stone diaries )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Diane Lois Way: Shields, Carol . In: Britannica 1995 Book of the Year . 1996
  2. ↑ Carol Shields . In: Reingard M. Nischik Ed .: Short Short Stories . Reclam, Stuttgart 2005
personal data
SURNAME Shields, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak Park , Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2003
Place of death Victoria , British Columbia, Canada