Elana Dykewomon
Elana Dykewomon (* 1949 as Elana Nachman) is an American, lesbian author of Jewish origin. She is known for her novel Beyond the Pale (Eng. Sarah's daughters ).
Life
Dykewomon was born in 1949 in New York City , the daughter of a lawyer and a librarian . She grew up in New York City and Puerto Rico and studied art at Reed College in Portland, Oregon . At the age of 21 she wrote her first novel, Riverfinger Women , which was published in 1974 under her maiden name Nachman. For the publication of her second book in 1976 she changed her name to Dykewoman, finally with the third book in 1981 to Dykewomon. From 1987 to 1994 she was the editor of the Sinister Wisdom magazine. Dykewomon currently lives in Oakland, California and teaches in the English Department at San Francisco State University .
Works
- Riverfinger Women , Daughters, Inc., 1974
- They Will Know Me By My Teeth, short stories and poetry , Megaera, 1976
- Fragments From Lesbos , Diaspora Distribution, 1981
- Nothing Will Be As Sweet As the Taste, selected poems , Onlywomen Press, London, 1995.
- Beyond the Pale , Press Gang, Vancouver, BC, 1998 (German Sarahs Töchter , Krug & Schadenberg , Berlin, 1999)
- Moon Creek Road , Spinsters Ink Books, 2003
- Risk , Bywater Books, 2009
Honors and prizes
The historical novel Beyond the Pale won the Lambda Literary Award in 1998 and the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Literary Award.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna Livia: Dykewomon, Elana . In: glbtq.com . Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dykewomon, Elana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nachman, Elana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lesbian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |