Eden Robinson

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Eden Victoria Lena Robinson (born January 19, 1968 in Kitimat , British Columbia , Canada ) is a Canadian English-language writer who was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2001 and 2019 .

Life

Eden Robinson was born in Kitamaat as a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations . She studied at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia . To finance her studies, she worked as a postman, cleaning lady and receptionist. Her first critically acclaimed book, Traplines (1995), was a collection of four lengthy short stories . The young narrators described catchy stories about their relationships with sociopaths and psychopaths . This collection won the British Winifred Holtby Prize for the best regional work by a Commonwealth writer. One of the four stories, Queen of the North , was added to The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women . Another of her short stories, Terminal Avenue , which did not appear in Traplines , was published in the anthology of post-colonial science fiction and fantasy So Long Been Dreaming . Born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe , she said Stephen King was one of her first literary role models.

Her second book, Monkey Beach (2000), was a novel set in Haisla territory, particularly in the village of Kitamaat. He follows a female teenager's quest for answers and understanding why her younger brother disappeared at sea. In the retrospective , the novel tells a story about growing up in the Haisla reserve . The book is both a criminal case and a spiritual journey that combines comparative realism with Haisla mysticism. Monkey Beach was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction . After all, it won the BC Book Prizes belonging Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize .

Robinson returned to the characters and urban setting of her story Contact Sports from Traplines in her third book, Blood Sports (2006), also a novel .

Some literary critics wanted her to be a writer who draws a line between the historical stories of colonialism and contemporary pop culture , but the author herself evaded this classification by stating that she writes on topics of pop culture simply because they entertain them .

Eden Robinson received the University of Victoria's Distinguished Alumni Award . Her sister, Carla Robinson, is a Canadian television journalist with CBC Newsworld .

Her works have been translated into German, Estonian, French and Dutch. The writer lives in North Vancouver.

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Awards or nominations

  • 1996: "Winifred Holtby Prize" for Traplines
  • 2001: Shortlist of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Monkey Beach
  • 2001: Shortlist of the Governor General's Award for Fiction for Monkey Beach
  • 2001: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Monkey Beach
  • 2012: Association of American University Presses, AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show, Book Design / Poetry and Literature for The Sasquatch At Home
  • 2012: The Alcuin Society, The Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, Non-Fiction Not Illustrated, 3rd place for The Sasquatch At Home
  • 2017: Writers 'Trust Fellowship of the Writers' Trust of Canada worth 10,000 Can $
  • 2017: Shortlist of the "Scotiabank Giller Prize" for Son of a Trickster
  • 2019: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Trickster Drift

review

The Sasquatch At Home
  • “This compilation of lectures given by storyteller and author Eden Robinson at the 2010 Canadian Literature Center's Henry Kreisel Lecture Series, when bound and printed, maintains the inherent qualities of good poetry, biography, as well as the truly wonderful storytelling abilities for which Robinson is known. Together in book form, the lectures become a unique gathering of quirky family vignettes that reach outside the intimacies of a single family and delve into the more complex dynamics of the community. Robinson looks at the politics of naming within the Haisla tradition, the ownership of stories, and the desire to preserve oral traditions through the acts of writing and telling stories. "
  • "Since publishing Monkey Beach , Eden Robinson has been one of Canada's most engaging writers .... Her latest work is flat out delicious reading, entertaining and informative at the same time .... That's Robinson's method — right storytelling, straight from the heart . With this new one, Robinson further cements her place as a national treasure. "

literature

  • Kit Dobson: Reading for B'gwus, in Ten Canadian writers in context. Ed. Curtis Gillespie, Marie J. Carrière, Jason Purcell. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2016, pp. 139-156 (with excerpt from The Sasquatch At Home , pp. 147-156). In Google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author portrait on ABCbookworld.com
  2. ^ Author portrait of Eden Robinson : Nicholas Dinka: Playing rough. In: Quill & Quire , December 2005. Retrieved July 26, 2012: “Critics have argued that her work seems to draw a link between historical colonialism and contemporary popular culture, for instance, but the author says she writes about pop subjects simply because they amuse her. "
  3. ↑ Random House
  4. ^ Excerpt from Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Ed. Curtis Gillespie, Marie J. Carrière, Jason Purcell. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2016, pp. 147-156. Before that, pp. 141-147, essay on Robinson. Also in Google books
  5. ^ The Sasquatch at Home. Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling , University of Alberta Press
  6. ^ Cara-Lyn Morgan: Nonfiction Review: Eden Robinson's The Sasquatch At Home , The Malahat Review , 177
  7. ↑ Trevor Carolan: The Sasquatch at Home. In: Pacific Rim Review of Books. Retrieved July 26, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Eden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Eden Victoria Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitamaat , British Columbia , Canada