Marian Engel

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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)

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personal data
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