Kirsty Gunn

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Kirsty Gunn (born in New Zealand in 1960 ) is a New Zealand-British writer.

Life

Kirsty Gunn attended Queen Margaret College in Wellington . She studied at Victoria University of Wellington and earned a Magister Phil from Oxford University . After graduating, she moved to London and has since worked as a freelance journalist in Great Britain.

Your novel Rain was filmed in 2001 by Christine Jeffs under the title Rain - Regentage . The novel The Boy and the Sea received the 2007 Book of the Year Award from the Scottish Arts Council . In 2007 she published 44 Things, a reflection on her time as the full-time mother of her daughters. The novel The Big Music won a New Zealand Post Book Award in New Zealand in 2013 . The short story collection Infidelities (“Untreuen”, 2014) is about women who are unfaithful and is divided into Going Out , Staying Out and Never Coming Home .

Gunn teaches writing at the University of Dundee .

Works (selection)

  • Rain . 1994
    • Rainy days: novella . Translation by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 1995
  • The Keepsake . 1997
    • A pale-eyed story: a novel . Translation by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 1997
  • This Place You Return To Is Home . 1999
    • Home is where you return to: narratives . Translation by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 1999
  • Featherstone . 2002
    • Featherstone: Novel . Translation by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2004
  • The Boy and the Sea . 2006
    • The boy and the sea . Translation by Bettina Abarbanell . Hamburg: Marebuch, 2005
    • Featherstone: Novel . Translation by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2004
  • 44 things . 2007
    • 44 Moments: Notes from a Determined Mother . Translation and afterword by Alexa Hennig von Lange . Zurich: Atrium-Verlag, 2009
  • The Big Music . 2012
  • Infidelities . 2014
  • My Katherine Mansfield Project . Essay. 2015
  • Caroline's bikini . Faber, 2018

literature

  • Jonathan Bastable, Hannah McGill (Eds.): The 21st century novel: notes from the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference . Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lionel Shriver : Fight or flight . Review, in: Financial Times , November 8, 2014, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Gunn, Kirsty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New Zealand