Lawrence Hill (Author)

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Lawrence Hill (2009)

Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957 in Newmarket (Ontario) ) is a Canadian writer.

Life

Lawrence Hill's father, Daniel G. Hill, was a Canadian sociologist and university professor who came from the United States and moved to Canada to study in the early 1950s. Like his father, his mother, Donna Hill, is a civil rights activist and a historian of Black America. His brother Dan Hill , born in 1954, is a pop singer, his sister Karen Hill is a writer.

Lawrence Hill grew up in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto Schools there . He received a BA in Economics from Laval University in Québec and a Masters in Literature from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . He worked for four years for the newspaper The Globe and Mail and then for the Winnipeg Free Press , for which he was parliamentary and government correspondent and office manager in Ottawa for two years from 1984. Hill traveled to Cameroon, Mali and Niger as a volunteer.

From 1986 Hill worked only as a writer. He has published several historical and sociological books on racial issues in North America. He also wrote a number of novels. The best-known novel The Book of Negroes (2007) received multiple awards, has been translated and has been published in more than ten countries.

Hill received a number of awards and received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto , Wilfrid Laurier University , University of Waterloo, and Dalhousie University . He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.

Lawrence Hill lives with his wife in Burlington , Ontario. The couple have five children.

Hill spoke about Mining Fiction and Essays to Meditate on Black History, Identity and Intersectionality at the Society for Canada Studies Annual Meeting in February 2019 .

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Some great thing . Novel. Turnstone, Winnipeg 1992
  • Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians . Umbrella, Toronto 1993
  • Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association . Umbrella, Toronto 1996
  • Any Known Blood . Novel. HarperCollins, Toronto 1997
  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada . Autobiography. HarperCollins Canada, Toronto 2001
  • The Book of Negroes . Novel. HarperCollins, Toronto 2007 (also: Someone Knows My Name )
  • with Joshua Key: The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq . Anansi, Toronto 2007 (Hill is editor)
    • Übers. Anne Emmert: I am a deserter. My life as a soldier in the Iraq war and my escape from the army. Hoffmann & Campe , Hamburg 2007
  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book. An Anatomy of a Book Burning . University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2013
  • Blood: The Stuff of Life . Anansi, Toronto 2013
  • The Illegal . Novel. 2015

literature

  • Christian J. Krampe: The past is present. The African-Canadian experience in Lawrence Hill's fiction. Series: Canadiana, 11. Peter Lang, Bern 2012. Zugl .: Diss. Phil. University of Trier 2012
  • Marja-Lena Bludau: The motif of crossing borders in Lawrence Hills "Any Known Blood" and "The Book of Negroes". Bachelor thesis , University of Kiel , Center for North American Studies (Chair Jutta Zimmermann)
  • Winfried Siemerling: History and the truth of fiction , in Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Ed. Curtis Gillespie, Marie J. Carrière, Jason Purcell. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2016, pp. 93 - 112 (with excerpt from Meet you at the door , pp. 102 - 112). Also in Google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ program
  2. ^ Four Nova Scotians among Order of Canada honors , The Chronicle Herald , July 1, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Newmarket, Ontario