Howard Engel
Howard Engel CM (born April 2, 1931 in St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada - † July 16, 2019 in Toronto ) was a Canadian writer and CBC / Radio Canada producer who lived in Toronto, Ontario and with Arthur Ellis Award and Matt Cohen Prize .
Life
Howard Engel was the author of the detective novel series about the fictional character Benny Cooperman, who takes place in the Niagara region around Grantham, Ontario, and combines much of Engel's birthplace in itself. Howard Engel was one of the founders of the Crime Writers of Canada .
From 1962 to 1978 he was married to Marian Engel , a well-known Canadian writer who died in 1985. They had two children, a pair of twins who were born in 1965. Charlotte Engel currently works for Bravo! and William Engel for Reels 4 Realty . Howard Engel later married the Canadian writer Janet Hamilton . The couple had a son born in 1989.
In 2000, Engel suffered a stroke that temporarily severely impaired his reading ability (he was only able to regain it to a limited extent later), while his writing ability remained largely unaffected (he couldn't really proofread anything, which is why every interruption in writing was problematic for him). He was later able to write again and wrote a new novel, Memory Book (2005), in which his hero Benny Cooperman suffered a gunshot wound in the head and suffered similar impairments as he himself had years earlier.
Two years later, with The Man Who Forgot How To Read (2007) , he published a kind of personal review of the time when he tried to come to terms with the consequences of his stroke. This book has been provided with an afterword by the acknowledged specialist in comparable cases, Oliver Sacks . In 2008 Howard Engel published another novel: East of Suez .
In February 2007, Howard Engel was appointed Member of the Order of Canada . He died in July 2019 at the age of 88.
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Novels
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The Suicide Murders (1980) ISBN 0-7720-1304-7
- Suicide is not a solution either . German by Monika Wittek, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983 ISBN 3-499-42637-4
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The Ransom Game (1981) ISBN 0-7720-1364-0
- Übers. Mechtild Sandberg : Blackmail game . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984 ISBN 3-499-42661-7
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Murder on Location (1982) ISBN 0-7720-1384-5
- Murder wasn't in the script . German by Monika Wittek, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984 ISBN 3-499-42691-9
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Murder Sees the Light (1984) ISBN 0-670-80304-9
- It all comes to light . German by Monika Wittek-Elwenspoek, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984 ISBN 3-499-42745-1
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A City Called July (1986) ISBN 0-670-81268-4
- Ticket for a dead person . German by Monika Elwenspoek, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988 ISBN 3-499-42833-4
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A Victim Must Be Found (1988) ISBN 0-670-82298-1
- A victim is needed . German by Monika Elwenspoek, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990 ISBN 3-499-42949-7
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Dead and Buried (1990) ISBN 0-670-83116-6
- With healthy skin . From the American by Sonja Hauser, Ullstein, Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-548-24270-7
- Murder in Montparnasse (1992) ISBN 0-670-84068-8
- There Was an Old Woman (1993) ISBN 0-670-85259-7
- Getting Away With Murder (1995) ISBN 0-670-86078-6
- Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell (1997) ISBN 0-670-87755-7
- A Child's Christmas in Scarborough (1997) ISBN 1-55013-922-3
- My Brother's Keeper (2001) ISBN 1-55278-327-8 (with Eric Wright)
- The Cooperman Variations (2001) ISBN 0-14-029744-8
- Memory Book (2005) ISBN 0-14-301665-2
- East of Suez (2008)
Non-fictional works
- Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind (1996) ISBN 1-55013-704-2
- Crimes of Passion: An Unblinking Look at Murderous Love (2001) ISBN 1-55263-355-1
- The Man Who Forgot How To Read (2007) ISBN 978-0-00-200714-6
Anthologies
- Criminal Shorts: Mysteries by Canadian Crime Writers (1992) ISBN 0-7715-9160-8 (Ed. With Eric Wright )
Awards
- 1985 : Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction for Murder Sees the Light
- 2004 : Matt Cohen Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Individual evidence
- ^ Debra Black: Order of Canada recipients , The Toronto Star . February 21, 2007, p. A12. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
- ↑ The Man Who Forgot How to Read and Other Stories at bbc.co.uk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angel, Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Catharines , Ontario , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th July 2019 |
| Place of death | Toronto |