Kim Echlin

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Kim Echlin actually Kimberly Ann Echlin (* 1955 ) is a Canadian writer , university professor and documentary writer who won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1997 .

Life

Echlin studied at the University of Toronto (UT) and was able to successfully complete this degree in 1982 with a doctorate in ethnology . She then lived and worked in Paris for a few years . After extensive trips to and through China ( Cambodia ), Africa ( Malawi , Rhodesia ) and overseas ( Marshall Islands ), she returned to her hometown.

Echlin is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada and has taught creative writing at the School for Continuing Studies (University of Toronto) since 1997 . She also worked as a lecturer in journalism at the Ryerson School of Journalism, University of Guelph, and York University .

She has also produced television documentaries for CBC / Radio-Canada and independent television companies such as Color me free (2007). From 1985 to 1990 she produced The Journal , an art magazine.

Echlin is married and lives in Toronto with her husband and children.

review

The English-language critics praised The Disappeared as a work of the proportions of a Greek tragedy and emphasized the style of the author: "This book is a miracle of economy whose short sentences and ellipses often draw on the powerful brevity of short-story technique."

The German-language literary criticism took its sixth work, which was first translated into German, "The Lost Lover", in 2009 against the background of the first trial against members of the bloody dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia because of its authenticity, the sparse language that focuses on the essentials is limited and as a "contribution against forgetting" positive. The Swiss critics praised the paperback edition under the new title In the middle of the river even more exuberantly: "The author finds a good measure to show us relentlessly how terrible war suffering and genocide is and yet also presents a unique, exciting and beautiful story."

Honors

Works (selection)

Author

prose
  • Elephant winter. A novel . Carroll & Graf, New York 1999, ISBN 0-7867-0610-4 .
  • Dagmar's daughter . Penguin Books, Toronto 2001, ISBN 0-14-317059-7 .
  • Inanna: From the Myth of Ancient Sumer. (Children's book) Illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber, Groundwood Books, Toronto 2003.
  • The disappeared. Black Cat, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8021-7066-8 .
    • The lost lover. From Canadian English by Claudia Feldmann. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-378-01104-5 .
    • Among other titles as In the middle of the river. Aufbau-Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7466-2690-1 .
Non-fiction
  • The translation of Ojibway. The nanabush myths . University Press, New York 1982, ISBN 0-315-08632-7 (also dissertation, New York University 1982).
  • Bibliography of Canadian Indian mythology . Völkerkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Nortorf 1988.
  • Elizabeth Smart. A fugue essay on women and creativity . Women's Press, Toronto 2004, ISBN 0-88961-442-3 .
  • Inanna. From the myths of ancient sumer . Groundwood Books, Toronto 2003, ISBN 0-88899-496-6 .

Editor

  • Barbara Moon: To arrive where you are. Literary journalism from the Banff Center for the Arts. BCP, Banff 2000, ISBN 0-920159-71-0 .

translator

  • Ke Yuan: Dragon and dynasties. An introduction to Chinese mythology. Penguin Books, New York 1993, ISBN 0-14-058653-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/kim-echlin
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt1542428/
  3. ↑ http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/kim-echlin
  4. ↑ Steve Davies: The Disappeared by Kim Echlin. A sensual story survives the horrors of Cambodia's killing fields, writes Stevie Davies. In: The Guardian . August 22, 2009. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  5. ↑ Susanna Gilbert: Cambodia's deep wounds. "The lost lover" - a novel against oblivion. In: The Berlin literary criticism. November 10, 2009. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  6. ↑ http://www.lesefieber.ch/buchbessprechungen/kim-echlin-in-der-mitte-des-flusses/
  7. ↑ Maureen Garvie: Review Elephant winter. In: Quill & Quire . January 1997, p. 35.
  8. ^ Clara Thomas: Review Dagmar's Daughter. In: Canadian Woman Studies. Summer / autumn 2001, p. 150.
  9. ↑ Patricia D. Lothrop: Review Inanna. In: School Library Journal. March 2004, p. 299.
  10. ↑ s. a. Elizabeth Smart kidnapped
personal data
SURNAME Echlin, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Echlin, Kimberly Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955