Leona Gom

Leona Gom (* 1946 in Alberta , Canada ) is a Canadian writer , poet and university professor who writes poetry as well as detective novels and thrillers in English . She won the Canadian Authors Association Award CAAA and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize .

Life

Leona Gom was born and raised on a remote farm in northeast Alberta in 1946. She graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton with a B.Ed. and MA . She then taught English for many years at Douglas and Kwantlen Colleges as well as at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia . For about ten years she worked as an editor on the award-winning magazine Event . She has received writer-in-residence positions at the University of Alberta, the University of Lethbridge and the University of Winnipeg .

Her work includes several diaries and over 50 anthologies , four of her crime novels about her fictional heroine Vicky Bauer have been translated into German and one novel into French. The film rights of her novel The Y chromosomes were acquired and its text was both gender studies and sociology courses in Canada and the United States rezipiert .

In 1981 she won the Canadian Authors Association Award in the poetry category for her Land of the Peace collection, and in 1986 her novel Housebroken was honored with the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, part of the BC Book Prizes .

The Leona Gom Archive has been maintained by the University of Calgary since 1993 . Because of their origins, they are counted among the so-called Prairie poets alongside Anne Campbell , Lorna Crozier , Kim Morrissey and Anne Szumigalski .

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Novels

• Housebroken. NeWest, Edmonton 1986; again Paperjacks, Toronto 1989
• Zero Avenue . Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver 1989
  • Übers. Margarete Längfeld: Unexpected arrival . Orlanda, Berlin 1991 ISBN 3-922166-75-X ; 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag , Frankfurt 1994 ISBN 3-596-11558-2
• The Y chromosomes. Sumac Second Story, Toronto 1990
  • Le chromosome Y . Translator Sylvie Bérard, Suzanne Grenier. Alire, Québec 2000 ISBN 2-922-14541-7
• After-Image: A Vicky Bauer Mystery Sumach / Second Story, Toronto 1996; St. Martin's Press , NY 1996
  • Übers. Ingrid Lebe: Vicky and the murder in the viewfinder . Fischer paperback, 2001 ISBN 3-596-14795-6
• Double Negative: A Vicky Bauer Mystery . Sumach / Second Story, Toronto 1998 ISBN 189676407X
  • Übers. Ingrid Lebe: Vicky and the double game . Fischer paperback, 2001 ISBN 3-596-14796-4
• Freeze Frame: A Vicky Bauer Mystery . Sumac / Second Story, Toronto 1999
  • Translated by Christel Dormagen: Vicky and the enigmatic photos . Fischer paperback, 2002 ISBN 3-596-14797-2
• Hating Gladys Sumach, Toronto 2002
• The Exclusion Principle . Sumach, Toronto 2009 ISBN 978-1-894549-79-0 )

Poems

• Kindling . Fiddlehead, Fredericton 1972
• The singletree . Sono Nis, Victoria 1975
• Land of the Peace . Thistledown, Saskatoon 1980
• Northbound . Thistledown, Saskatoon 1984
• Private properties . Sono Nis, Victoria 1986
• The Collected Poems . Sono Nis, Victoria 1991

Awards

• 1981: "Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry" for her poems Land of the Peace
• 1986: "Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize" for Housebroken

Web links

• Nora Foster Stovel: Hearts of Stone: Quarrying the Canadian Shield in Recent Canadian Women's Writing . In: The International Fiction Review, 2006, No. 33
• Leona Gom ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ author profile on Sononis Press
2. ↑ Poetry in English. The Canadian Encyclopedia
3. ↑ Ami Sands Brodoff: Review of The Exclusion Principle by Leona Gom. Quill & Quire . June 2009