Michael Turner (writer)

Michael Turner (* 1962 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian musician and writer and poet , poems, prose and opera - libretto published.

Life

Turner's work is often examined as an object of the hidden and only seemingly ordinary; he depicts objects and concepts in great detail that are usually polished to the end, as in Company Town (1991) and Kingsway (1995). Turner mostly varies his style and thereby enables a diverse intertextual approach to his works, for example in American Whiskey Bar (1997) and The Pornographer's Poem (1999).

Turner's work has been adapted for radio, stage, television and film, and has been translated into French, Russian and Korean. He won the Genie Award 1996 in the category Music / Original song to the BC Book Prizes belonging Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2000 and rose in 1992 on the short list of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize . In 2010, 8 × 10 was also on the shortlist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Michael Turner worked with video artist Stan Douglas on two experimental video films; Journey Into Fear ( Istanbul Biennale , 2001) and Suspiria ( Documenta11 , 2002) as well as a feature film with filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, Von Gloeden Project , based on the life and work of photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden . He was also commissioned to write a libretto for the Modern Baroque Opera Company, the subject of which was based on Wilhelm Busch's Max & Moritz .

In the late 1980s he was a member of a band called the Hard Rock Miners himself .

In 1996 Bruce McDonald directed a film whose plot was based on the Hard Core Logo ; McDonald also directed a live feature film at Turner's Roman American Whiskey Bar in 1998 as a drama produced and broadcast by Citytv. A film based on The Pornographer's Poem has been announced for 2005 .

Turner lives in his native Vancouver, writes essays and publishes the Advance Editions , a literary, pictorial and artistic art edition that he founded with Arsenal Pulp Press in 1998. He is currently working on another novel.

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Poems and novels

• Company Town (Arsenal Pulp, 1991)
• Hard Core Logo (Arsenal Pulp, 1993)
• Kingsway (Arsenal Pulp, 1995)
• American Whiskey Bar (Arsenal Pulp, 1997)
• The Pornographer's Poem (Doubleday Canada, 1999). English: The poem of the pornographer . From the American by Jürgen Bürger (Liebeskind, Munich, 2005)
• 8x10 (Doubleday Canada, 2009)

Contributions to anthologies

• Lost Classics (Knopf Canada, 2000)
• Story of a Nation (Doubleday Canada, 2001)
• The Notebooks (AnchorCanada, 2002)
• A Verse Map of Vancouver (Anvil Press, 2009)

Web links

• Interview with January Magazine (February 2000)
• Michael Turner in the Internet Movie Database (English)