Diana Hartog

Diana Hartog (born October 25, 1942 in Palo Alto , California ) is a Canadian poet and writer from the United States who won the "Gerald Lampert Award" and in 1987 the Dorothy Livesay Poetry with her first volume of poetry, Matinee Light (1983) Prize for her collection of poems Candy from Strangers .

Life

Diana Hartog was born as Diana Lane , daughter of the married couple Mary Robin Lane (* October 24, 1910 - February 8, 2004) and Charles W. Lane († July 2000). Her mother is said to have written a column for a daily newspaper in Sonara and worked for a local radio station when she was young .

In 2003, the author reported in a short story about her first contacts with literature. The editors of Brick magazine came up with the idea of asking respected English-speaking authors for short essays about their favorite and lost classic book to celebrate the new millennium . Michael Ondaatje was the editor and Diana Hartog was one of the writers alongside Margaret Atwood , Helen Garner , David Malouf , Jeffrey Eugenides , John Irving , Edmund White , Bill Richardson and Eden Robinson , among others , who shared her personal memories. In Quest for Sita she described that in the thin house library of her childhood in the 1950s there were no historical works, no novels, not even Reader's Digest Condensed , but of all things the erotic-mystical love story Quest for Sita from India would have found its way into found the home library. It was precisely this mixture of mysteries and sexual images that she had accompanied as “her secret” from the age of six. Since her mother always fended off every loving approach her father had and all she saw her father read was a daily newspaper, the origin of the ribbon was unclear. When she left Sonora, she took the book with her. At the University of San Francisco she gave it to her first great love at the request of her, who one day disappeared from her life along with the book when he changed his name due to political problems and went into hiding. She later learned that it was the short prose version of the epic poem Ramayana and that the drawings were by Mervyn Peake : "Elegant and erotic, they awakend me to their own mystery, and further, to the mystery of the surrounding words." and erotic, they awakened their own mystery to me, and later, to the mystery of the surrounding words. "

In 1970, the future writer moved with her husband Michael Hartog from California to British Columbia , Canada , where she later also received Canadian citizenship and now lives in the rural New Denver area . On a mountain slope she lives in a studio with a view over a lake panorama, where her poems and stories are created. During the winter, she regularly resides in Santa Cruz , California.

In her poetic discovery phase, Naked Poems (1965) by Phyllis Webb made a special influence on her later work. However, this influence is also documented for other Canadian authors: George Bowering , Douglas Barbour , Roy Kiyooka , Daphne Marlatt , bp Nichol, Michael Ondaatje, Stephen Scobie , Sharon Thesen and Lola Lemire Tostevin .

Her first collection of poems, Matinee Light (1983), won the "Gerald Lampert Award" and in 1987 she won the BC Book Prizes "Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize" for her collection of poems Candy from Strangers . Hartog's preferred form of writing is the poem, whereby she likes to deal with Asian poetry, such as haiku . Here she also emerged as the editor of Canadians of Japanese origin.

With her friend Sharon Thesen, she has published a joint volume of poetry, whereupon both Paulette Jiles were presented and interviewed by Constance Rook in 1988 in The Malahat Review .

One of her short stories was shortlisted for the Journey Prize and her first historical novel, The Photographer's Sweethearts (1996), caused quite a stir in North America. In the book, in an almost literary analysis of pedophilia , she describes how the young Danish photographer Louie Olsen immigrated to California at the beginning of the 20th century and gained access to children he abused through his photography. In doing so, she initially suggests that the description is a true case, only to later deny this again. The book received largely critical acclaim, although some reviewers complained that it did not go far enough in its attempt to explain (Olson himself appears to have been a child abuse victim) and its condemnation.

Her niece Sarah Lane encouraged her to write with her poetry Tiny Black Periods , which this book of poetry found in her grandparents' attic in California.

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Poetry

• Matinee Light. Coach House Press, Toronto 1983, ISBN 978-0-88910-256-9 .
• Candy From Strangers. Coach House Press, Toronto 1986, ISBN 978-0-88910-287-3
• Sleeves: seven poems . (= International poetry series (London, England), no. 24.) Northern Lights, London 1988.
• Diana Hartog & Sharon Theses: The Pangs of Sunday. Toronto 1990.
• Polite to Bees: A Bestiary. Coach House Press, Toronto 1992.
• Ink monkey. Brick Books, London, Ontario 2006, ISBN 978-1-894078-50-4

Short stories

• The wrung neck of a swan . Two Small Bears Books / Mainline Graphics, Silverton, BC 1991, ISBN 978-0-9695860-0-5
• No Hippies Allowed. Laughing Raven Press, Silverton, BC 1994, ISBN 978-1-896157-00-9 . (with autobiographical elements)

Novels

• The Photographer's Sweethearts. Overlook Press, Woodstock NY 1996, ISBN 978-0-87951-646-8 .

As editor

• Diana Hartog / Dee Evetts / American Haiku Archives: Night of the meteors . Slocan Valley, BC 1986.

Awards and nominations

• 1983: Gerald Lampert Award for Matinee Light
• 1987: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Candy from Strangers
• 1992: Shortlist : Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
• oJ: Shortlist Journey Prize
• oJ: second place for poetry in a CBC literary competition

literature

• Constance Rooke: Getting into Heaven: An Interview with Diana Hartog, Paulette Jiles, and Sharon Thesen. The Malahat Review , 83, 1988, pp. 5-52

Web links

• Diana Hartog: The Psychoanalysis of Dreams . In: Gargoyle: Issue 44,12 / 7/2001 . Retrieved April 11, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ after William H. New Hg .: Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. 2002, Lemma "Diana Hartog" by Rebecca Murdock, p. 476
2. ↑ www.findagrave
3. ^ Obituaries for February 12, 2004. In: The Union Democrat, February 12, 2004. Retrieved April 11, 2012
4. ↑ Michael Ondaatje (Ed.): Lost Classics . Bloomsbury Publishing 2003.
5. ^ Diana Hartog: Quest for Sita. In: Michael Ondaatje (Ed.): Lost Classics . Bloomsbury Publishing 2003, pp. 72-74, here p. 73.
6. ↑ http://www.southbrook.com/2009_poetica_chardonnay
7. ^ Naked Poems ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 14, 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. 
9. ↑ Diana Hartog; Dee Evetts; American Haiku Archives. Night of the meteors. Slocan Valley, BC 1986.
10. ^ Diana Hartog: Biography in Chie Kaegay. In: Seasons in New Denver: Haiku by Kamegaya Chie, ed. by D. Hartog, Laughing Raven Press, Silverton, BC 1994, pp. 3-4.
11. ↑ The Malahat Review # 83, summer 1988. Excerpt ( memento of the original from January 2, 2016 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. 
12. ^ Paulette Jiles ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87951-646-8
15. ^ Paul Quarrington: In : Quill & Quire . 1996. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
16. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. 
17. ↑ Meet Sarah Lane - decisive difference to the current version ( Memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
18. ↑ http://www.dominionpaper.ca/review/2006/08/15/september_.html
19. ↑ http://poetryreviews.ca/reviews/ink-monkey-by-diana-hartog/
20. ↑ http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=6690