Fred Bodsworth

Charles Frederick "Fred" Bodsworth (born October 11, 1918 in Port Burwell , Ontario , † September 15, 2012 in Toronto ) was a Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist.

Life

Fred Bodsworth was considered a Canadian novelist, but his novels and stories have mainly related to nature and animal portrayals, and little to the representation of social circles. Many of his books contain animal stories, such as The Last of the Curlews (1954, German 1977: The last Eskimobrachvogel ), which is about the restless and futile search of an Eskimo curlew for a partner. In 1972 the book was adapted as an animated film by Hanna-Barbera . Also in The Strange One (1959, German 1995: The stranger Barra ) are animals here barnacles, at the center. The Sparrow's Fall (1967, German 1973: run feet, run ) takes up the struggle for survival of a young Indian couple , the struggle with winter and nature. In addition, it is about social aspects such as the proselytizing of the Indians and the struggle of the individual, dealing with the necessity of struggle as well as its moral and ethical questions. Bodsworth's descriptions are based on extensive own research activities such as ornithological expertise.

Bodsworth worked as a journalist for The St. Thomas Times-Journal, Toronto Star and Maclean’s .

Awards

He received the Matt Cohen Prize in 2002 for his books.

Fonts

• The Last of the Curlews . Longman, London 1955
  • Übers. Götz Pommer: The great flight. Universitas, Berlin 1976
    • other translator: The last Eskimo curlew . Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 1977 ("New Texts Edition" series)
  • Excerpt: Reader's Digest selection books , 3rd quarter: The last curlew . Stuttgart 1962 (the third story)
• The Strange One of Barra . 1959
  • Translated by Herbert Roch: Kanina . Swiss Publishing House & Universitas, Zurich, Berlin 1962; Okahandja again, Duisburg 1996
  • other translator: The stranger from Barra . Construction, Berlin 1965; again Bertelsmann Lesering 1969; again German Book Association, Frankfurt around 1980; and other book clubs in 1970
• The Atonement of Ashley Morden . 1964
• The Sparrow's case . Longman, London 1967
  • Übers. Ernst Larsen: Run, feet, run. An Indian fate in the arctic expanse. Bertelsmann 1960 a. ö. and European Book and Phonoclub Reinhard Mohn undated (1969); again Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1968; Again Goldmann's Yellow Pocket Books, # 2956, undated (1972. This edition with subtitles: An Indian fate in a merciless arctic expanse ); rebuilding, Berlin 1973
• Pacific Coast. The Illustrated National History of Canada. Natural Science of Canada, Toronto 1970
• Der Karibujäger , in Reader's Digest selection books, 3rd quarter, Stuttgart 1998, the fourth story ISBN 9783870707477

Web links

• Literature by and about Fred Bodsworth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia (English)
• Fred Bodsworth in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary , accessed September 19, 2012
2. ^ BI Writer Lexicon, VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1st edition, 1988, p. 85