Marian Engel
Marian Engel , OC , (born May 24, 1933 in Toronto , Ontario , † February 16, 1985 there ) was a Canadian writer .
Life
Marian Engel was born as Marian Searle in Toronto. She studied at McMaster University in Hamilton , Ontario, and McGill University in Montreal. After graduation, she taught at McGill University and the University of Montana . She married the Canadian writer Howard Engel in 1962 , from whom she divorced in 1978.
Marian Engel is one of the most important representatives of contemporary Canadian literature . Most of her work focuses on women. For her best-known work Bär (Bear), a novel about the erotic relationship between a librarian and a bear, she received the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1976 .
In 1982 she was named Officer of the Order of Canada and received the Toronto Book Awards for Lunatic Villas .
In addition to novels , she also wrote three children's books .
Marian Engel Award
After her death, the Writer's Development Trust of Canada donated the Marian Engel Award, which is presented annually to a female writer.
Works
- 1968 No Clouds of Glory
- 1970 The Honeyman Festival
- 1974 Monodromos
- 1975 Joanne. The last days of a modern marriage
- 1975 Sarah Bastard's Notebook
- 1976 Bear. McClelland & Stewart, 1976
- in German: Bär. Translated from Gabriele Brößke. Frauenbuchverlag, 1986; Unionsverlag again, 2005 ISBN 3293203396
- 1979 The Glassy Sea
- 1981 Lunatic villas
- 1981 The Year of the Child
- 1985 Tattooed Woman
Children's books
- 1975 Inside the Easter Egg
- 1975 One Way Street
- 1977 My name is not Odessa Yarker
literature
- Petra Wittke-Rüdiger: "Re-drawning the map". The feminist departure from colonial premises in Marian Engel's novel "Bear", in Literary Cartographies of the North of Canada. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2005, pp. 177–215 (available in Google Books )
- Margaret Atwood : Strange Things. The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. 1995, 2004, TB 2009, pp. 19, 49, 57, 136f. about Bear . (Available in Google Books)
Web links
- Literature by and about Marian Engel in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Angel, Marian |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Searle, Marian (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |
DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1985 |
Place of death | Toronto |