Jane Yolen

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Jane Yolen (2011)

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939 in New York City ) is an American author of children's books as well as fantasy and science fiction . With more than 360 book publications, Yolen is a very prolific writer. Her works have received numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award and the Nebula Award .

Life

Yolen attended Staples High School in Westport , Connecticut , where she graduated in 1956. She then studied at Smith College in Northampton , Massachusetts , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1960 . Further studies at the New School for Social Research in New York and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst followed, where she completed her Masters in Education in 1976 . After college, initially worked for This Week magazine and the Saturday Review in New York and from 1961 for various New York publishers, first for Gold Medal Books until 1962 , then for Rutledge Books until 1963 and for Alfred A. Knopf Juvenile until 1965 Books .

In 1962 Yolen married David W. Stemple and had a daughter (born 1966) and two sons (born 1968 and 1970) with him. From 1972 to 1980 she wrote a children's book column for the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, where she was a lecturer at Smith College from 1979 to 1984. From 1989 she was the editor of Jane Yolen Books , an imprint of the Harcourt Brace publishing house . Yolen was a board member of the Society of Children's Book Writers from 1974 for over 25 years and from 1977 to 1979 with the Children's Literature Association . From 1986 to 1988 she was the president of Science Fiction Writers of America .

In 2006 her husband David died of a brain tumor. Yolen lives in Massachusetts and for part of the year in Scotland, where the couple first settled near St Andrews in 1994.

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In the early 1960s, Yolen saw herself as a future poet and journalist. Her first book publication, however, was Pirates in Petticoats (1963), an illustrated book for young people about female pirates . This was followed by the picture book See this Little Line (1963) and the fairy tale Gwinellen: The Princess Who Could Not Sleep (1965). In the years and decades that followed, hundreds of books for children, teenagers and young adults were created. In the field of fantasy she mainly wrote fairy tales and fantasy, the series Commander Toad and Pit Dragon can be assigned to science fiction . Despite the relatively low proportion of adult works, she won some of the most prestigious prizes in fantasy and science fiction, including twice the Nebula Award for short stories and four nominations for her novels (1989 with The Devil's Arithmetic , 1990 with Sister Light, Sister Dark , 1991 with White Jenna and 1993 Briar Rose ), twice she won the World Fantasy Award and three times the Mythopoeic Award . Her poetry has also received several awards, in 2007 she received the Dwarf Stars Award and in 2010 the Rhysling Award for her life's work.

Awards

bibliography

Below only the works by Yolen, which have been published as single publications in German translation. A more comprehensive bibliography can be found at Jane Yolen / Bibliography .

The Sarkkhan Dragon Fighter (novel series)
  • Dragon's Blood (1982)
    • Dragon blood. Translated by Anja Hansen-Schmidt. Anrich, Weinheim 2001, ISBN 3-89106-413-6
  • Heart's Blood (1984)
    • Heart and soul. Translated by Anja Hansen-Schmidt. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 3-89106-423-3 .
  • A Sending of Dragons (1987)
    • Dragon Message. Translated by Anja Hansen-Schmidt. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 3-89106-428-4 .

German collective edition:

  • The dragon fighter of Sarkkhan: the dragon trilogy in the anthology. Translated by Anja Hansen-Schmidt. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-407-74017-4 .
  • The Boy Who Had Wings (1974)
    • The boy with the wondrous wings With wax chalk pictures by Helga Aichinger. Translated by Elisabeth Schnack. Artemis, Zurich & Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7608-0369-5 .
  • The Simple Prince (1978)
    • The prince and the simple life. Illustrated by Jack Kent. Translated by Marion von der Kammer. Carlsen (Lilli-Billi-Bücher), Reinbek near Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-551-11628-8 .
  • Children of the Wolf (1984)
    • The wolf children of Midnapur. Translated by Wolf Harranth. Oetinger, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7891-1752-8 .
  • Cards of Grief (1985)
    • A world of sadness. Translated by Eva Eppers. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 24107, 1988, ISBN 3-404-24107-X .
  • The Devil's Arithmetic (1988)
  • Briar Rose (1992)
    • Dornrose: my grandmother's story. Translated by Ulrike Nolte. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-5305-3 .
  • The Prince of Egypt (1998)
    • The Prince of Egypt. Pictures by Michael Köelsch after drawings by Larry Navarro. Translated by Annemarie Bruhns. Bertelsmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-570-12355-3 .
  • Armageddon Summer (1998, with Bruce Coville)
    • The day the world ends. Translated by Katja Schüler and Salah Naoura. Arena Paperback # 2238. Arena, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-401-02238-5 .
  • Sword of the Rightful King (2003)
    • The secret of the magic sword: an Arthurian novel. Translated by Anja Malich. Carlsen, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-551-35376-X .
  • Pay the Piper (2005, with Adam Stemple)
    • Pied Piper: a rock 'n' roll fairy tale. Translated by Joachim Körber. Ed. Phantasia, Bellheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-937897-23-3 .
  • The Barefoot Book of Dance Stories (2010, with Heidi EY Stemple; illustrations by Helen Cann)
    • Waltz, polka and flamenco: the most beautiful fairy tales about dancing. Translated by Michael Stehle. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8251-7690-7 .

Film adaptations

  • 2008 The Girl Who Cried Flowers (short film)
  • 2005 How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? (Short film)
  • 2002 How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? (Short film)
  • 1999 The Devil's Arithmetic (TV movie)
  • 1993 Commander Toad in Space (episode of the ABC Weekend Specials television series )
  • 1991 Merlin and the Dragons (TV cartoon, German as Merlin and the Dragons )

Yolen also wrote screenplays for two episodes of the British television series Jackanory , namely Christmas Stories: The Minstrel and the Mountain (1968) and Greyling (1970).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Liz Holliday: Yolen, Jane (Hyatt). In: David Pringle : St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers. St. James Press, New York 1996, ISBN 1-55862-205-5 , pp. 638-641.
  2. Jane Yolen - A Short Biography , accessed May 10, 2019.