Joy Chant
Joy Chant (actually Eileen Joyce Rutter ; born January 13, 1945 in London ) is a British writer .
Life
Eileen Joyce Chant was born in London in 1945 as the daughter of the draftsman John Maxwell Chant and Glenys, née Sherwell. She studied library science at the College of Librarianship Wales . Since 1966 she worked as a librarian in Havering , London.
In 1970 her first novel Red Moon and Black Mountain was published , a classic fantasy story about the House of Kendreth , which was continued with The Gray Mane of Morning (1977) and When Voiha Wakes (1983). In 1983 Chant published The High Kings , a collection of retellings of Celtic legends from the area of the Matière de Bretagne and Arthurian legend .
Works
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Red Moon and Black Mountain. The End of the House of Kendreth (1970)
- German: Red moon and black mountain. Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-12-901470-5 .
- Fantasy and Allegory in Literature for Young Readers . Aberystwyth 1971.
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The Gray Mane of Morning (1977)
- English: The moon of the burning trees. Munich 1981, ISBN 3-442-23803-X .
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The High Kings (1983)
- English: Kings of Fog Island: The Book of Celtic Kings Tales. Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-404-28125-X .
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When Voiha Wakes (1983)
- German: When Voiha wakes up. Munich 1984, ISBN 3-442-23845-5 .
- The walls of Kophitel. In: Peter Wilfert (Ed.): Goldmann Fantasy Foliant I. Goldmann Fantasy # 23819, 1983, ISBN 3-442-23819-6 .
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 92.
- Don Keller: Chant, Joy . In: John Clute , John Grant (eds.): The Encyclopedia of Fantasy . Orbit, London 1997, ISBN 1-85723-368-9 .
- Robert Reginald : Science fiction and fantasy literature. A checklist, 1700–1974 with contemporary science fiction authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 851,
Web links
- Joy Chant in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Raymond H. Thompson: Interview with Joy Chant on "The High Kings" , 1989, accessed December 9, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chant, Joy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rutter, Eileen Joyce (real name); Chant, Eileen Joyce (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |