Eric Walters
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Eric Walters (born March 3, 1957 in Toronto ) is a Canadian author for children and young people.
life and work
Eric Walters grew up in west Toronto, in a deprived area of the city. His mother died when he was four years old and he and his older sister had to take care of themselves. Walters had a wild youth and many of the children and teenagers he grew up with ended up in prison. He himself was able to escape this life, which he himself felt like immigration to a new country. He studied psychology and then worked as a social worker. In addition to his job, he completed a master's degree in social work as well as a teacher training course, a career aspiration of his youth. Today he lives in Mississauga, Ontario with his wife Anita. He has three children.
His writing began in 1993. His first story “Stand your ground” was the result of an attempt to inspire his reading weary students for literature. The setting is the school (Vista Heights Public School), where he teaches. He lets names of his students and characteristics of the local community Streetsville flow into the story. In the following years, Walters published 70 more stories. His books have been translated into eleven languages, including German.
In addition to teaching and writing, Walters founded a non-profit organization in Kenya. The organization "Creation of Hope" cares for orphans in the Mbooni district. This set up two children's homes and ensures that the orphans can go to school.
Eric Walter's books are often about social justice and problems. In an interview, Walters describes two main themes that run through his stories: "A sense of belonging" - in his opinion people always want to belong somewhere - and the will and the strength to change something in his life. Walters is of the opinion that every person can consciously make decisions in their life in order to overcome misery and hardship and to make something of themselves. The protagonists in Walter's books are teenagers whose lives are changed by a decisive event. His main characters are mostly at the age of 14. In April 2010 he hiked 200 kilometers through the Sahara before he published the book: "Just Deserts". In the summer of 2012 he and his son climbed Mount Everest for his book: "Between Heaven and Earth". He also traveled around Canada and introduced his stories to children.
Awards
Eric Walters has received 100 awards, including eleven Childrens Choice Awards. He is the only writer in Canada to have won both the Silver Birch Award and the Red Maple Award three times, in which more than 125,000 students voted for their favorite as an election committee. Both are Canadian children's and youth book awards from the Ontario Library Association, part of a national recreational reading program.
Works
- The Taming (Doubleday 2012) ISBN 978-0-385-67658-8
- The Matatu (Orca 2012)
- End of Days (Doubleday September 2012)
- Just Deserts (Penguin 2011)
- Catboy (Orca 2011)
- Shaken (Doubleday 2011)
- Flyboy (Penguin 2010)
- Home Team (Orca 2010)
- Trouble in Paradise (Penguin 2010)
- Branded (Orca 2010)
- Beverly Hills Maasai (Orca 2010)
- Wave (Doubleday 2009)
- Shell Shocked (Penguin 2009)
- United We Stand (Doubleday 2009)
- Wounded (Penguin, 2009)
- Tell Me Why (Doubleday 2009)
- Black & White (Penguin 2009)
- Special Edward (Orca 2009)
- Alexandria of Africa (Doubleday 2008)
- Splat! (Orca 2008)
- The Pole (Penguin 2008)
- Voyageur (Penguin 2008)
- When Elephants Fight (Orca 2008)
- In A Flash (Orca 2008)
- The Falls (Penguin 2008)
- Boot Camp (Orca 2007)
- Sketches (Penguin 2007)
- Tiger Trap (Dundurn 2007)
- Safe as Houses (Doubleday 2007)
- Bifocal (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2007)
- House Party (Orca 2007)
- Shattered (Penguin 2006)
- We All Fall Down (Doubleday 2006)
- Camp X - Fool's Gold (Penguin 2006)
- Laggan Lard Butts (Orca 2006)
- Stuffed (Orca 2006)
- Triple Threat (Orca 2005)
- Elixir (Penguin 2005)
- Caged Eagles (Orca 2001)
- War of the Eagles (Orca 1998)
- Trapped in Ice (Penguin 1997)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2008 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.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2013 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.
- ↑ http://www.tdsb.on.ca/wwwdocuments/about_us/media_room/docs/Eric%20Walters%20-%20Bio.pdf
- ↑ http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1046/Walters-Eric-Robert-1957.html#ixzz0d0twuVS3
- ↑ http://www.tdsb.on.ca/wwwdocuments/about_us/media_room/docs/Eric%20Walters%20-%20Bio.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walters, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian author for children and young people |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |