Jane Urquhart

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Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart (born June 21, 1949 in Little Long Lac , Geraldton, Ontario ) is one of the most successful Canadian writers today.

Urquhart was born in northern Ontario, north of Thunder Bay , and grew up in Toronto , where she attended the private girls' school Havergal College. She went to junior college in Vancouver , then went to Guelph University . She earned her BA in English Literature in 1971 . After the accidental death of her husband, the artist Paul Keele, she returned to university and did her BA in art history in 1975 .

In addition to three volumes of poetry ( I'm Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace , False Shuffles and The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan ), the novels Fort (1995), Übermalungen (1997), Im Strudel (2002) and Die Bildhauer (2004 ) translated into German.

In 1992, her novella The Whirlpool was the first Canadian book to win the prestigious French Prix ​​du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Prize for Best Foreign Book). Her third short story, Away , stayed on the Canadian national bestseller list for 132 weeks (longer than any other Canadian book) and won the Trillium Book Award in 1994 .

Also in 1994 Urquhart received the Marian Engel Prize, in 1996 she was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Away , and in 1997 she received the Governor General's Award for Fiction , Canada's most coveted literary prize; In 2003 she was nominated for the Booker Prize for her work The Sculptors . She has also received multiple nominations for the Canadian Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize .

Urquhart lives with her second husband, the Canadian artist Tony Urquhart and their daughter Emily in a small town in southwestern Ontario.

Works (selection)

  • The whirlpool. 1986
    • In the vortex . Translated by Monika Schmalz
  • Storm Glass . 1987, short story
  • Changing Heaven . 1990
    • The balloonist . Translated by Berthold Radke
  • Away . 1993
    • Away . Translated by Werner Richter
  • The underpainter . 1997
    • Overpainting . Translated by Peter Knecht
  • The Stone Carvers . 2001
  • A map of glass . 2005
  • Sanctuary Line . 2010

literature

  • Héliane Daziron-Ventura, Marta Dvořák Eds .: Resurgence in Jane Urquhart's œuvre. Peter Lang, Bern 2010
  • Regina Männle: The "other" literature of North America. Canada's cultural self-image as reflected in its literature, illustrated in novels by Margaret Atwood , Michael Ondaatje and Jane Urquhart. Grin-Verlag, 2007
  • Nora Tunkel: The Recreation of Artists, Ancestors and Her / stories: Jane Urquhart , in dies., Transcultural imaginaries. History and globalization in contemporary Canadian literature. Winter, Heidelberg 2012, pp. 169 - 178. Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Vienna 2009

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notes

  1. ↑ today Greenstone
  2. ↑ Schmalz, now Baark , in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
  3. ↑ Diploma thesis , cultural and literary studies, course library and media management at the Media University . To go .
personal data
SURNAME Urquhart, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Long Lac, Geralton, Ontario