Laura Goodman Salverson

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Laura Goodman Salverson (born December 9, 1890 in Winnipeg , † July 13, 1970 in Toronto ; born Laura Goodman ) was a Canadian writer and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction .

Life and work

Laura Goodman Salverson was born in 1890 in Winnipeg, Canada, as Laura Goodman, daughter of Icelandic immigrants Lárus Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir. She moved to the USA and Canada with her parents , which is why her schooling was frequently interrupted and she did not learn English until she was ten . In 1913 she married George Salverson, a railroad worker of Norwegian origin, and lived with him in almost all regions of Canada in the years that followed.

Salverson began writing literary texts when he was eighteen. In 1923 her debut novel The Viking Heart was published , in which she describes the life of Icelandic settlers in Canada between 1876 and the First World War . In her next novels she also dealt with Nordic immigrants in the ' New World '. The novel The Dark Weaver (1937) and her autobiography Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter (1939) won the Governor General's Award for Fiction. In their later novels, Salverson et al. a. old Nordic legends and the expeditions before Christopher Columbus .

Salverson also taught creative writing and edited The Icelandic Canadian magazine . She was a member of the Institut National des Sciences et Arts ( Paris ), which she honored with a gold medal for her literary achievements.

Works

Novels
  • The Viking Heart. 1923
  • When Sparrow's Fall. 1925
  • Land of the Silver Dragons. 1927
  • Johann Lind. 1928
  • The Dove. 1933
  • The Dark Weaver: Against the Sombre Background of the Old Generations Flame the Scarlet Banners of the New. 1937
  • Black Lace. 1938
  • Immortal Rock: The Saga of the Kensington Stone . 1954
Poetry
  • Wayside gleams. 1925
Autobiography
  • Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter . 1939

Prices

  • 1937 Governor General's Award for Fiction for The Dark Weaver
  • 1939 Governor General's Award for Confessions of an Immigrant's Daught
  • 1954 Ryerson Fiction Award (All-Canada Fiction Award) for Immortal Rock
  • Gold medal from the Institut National des Sciences et Arts

literature

  • Terrence L. Craig: Laura Goodman Salverson: Icelandic Pride and Prejudice , in: Icelandic Connection 63/4 (2011)
  • Virginia Martin: Laura Goodman Salverson: A Reader's Reflection , in: Icelandic Connection 63/4 (2011)
  • Barbara Powell: Laura Goodman Salverson: Her Father's "own true son" , in: Canadian Literature , 133, 2001, pp. 78–89 ( PDF, English )
  • Shelley Sweeney, Jan Horner, Manitoba borders: women writing over the line. A historical overview of ten Manitoba women writers . Manitoba Women's Directorate, Winnipeg 2000
  • Carolyn Dorothy Redl: Representations of ethnicity in Canadian prairie literature by selected women writers . Diss. Phil. (Ph. D.), University of Alberta , Edmonton 1991
  • Kristjana Gunnars: Laura Goodman Salverson's confessions of a divided self , in: Shirley Neuman, Smaro Kamboureli (Ed.): Amazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing Longspoon / Newest, Edmonton 1986 ISBN 978-0-920897-12-6
  • Terrence L. Craig: The Confessional Revisited: Laura Salverson's Canadian Work , in: Studies in Canadian Literature 10/1, 1985
  • Elisabeth Paleczek: Writing in Another Country: Remembrance, Memory and Identity in Selected Works by Laura Goodman Salverson and Kristjana Gunnars. AV Akademikerverlag, Riga 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laura Goodman Salverson , from English-Canadian writers , Athabasca University , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Salverson, Laura Goodman at: collectionscanada.gc.ca , accessed on August 10, 2015 (English).
  3. ^ Hallvard Dahlia: Laura Salverson ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  4. ^ "Ryerson Award Winner," in: The Gazette , March 13, 1954.
personal data
SURNAME Salverson Goodman, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodman, Laura; Salverson, Laura; Salverson, Laura G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian English language writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1970
Place of death Toronto