Morley Callaghan

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Morley Callaghan , CC , O.Ont , (born February 22, 1903 in Toronto , Ontario , † August 25, 1990 ibid) was a Canadian writer.

Life

The son of English immigrants studied law in Toronto without taking up a legal profession. Instead, he worked for the Toronto Star in the 1920s and met Ernest Hemingway . Like him, Callaghan wrote concise, realistic and psychologically insightful short stories. For a few months in 1929 he was also a member of the group of modern writers at Montparnasse in Paris , which included Hemingway, Ezra Pound , Gertrude Stein , F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce . In 1963 Callaghan described these years, including a boxing match he fought with Hemingway, in which he clearly defeated him.

Callaghan's novels and short stories are often about Catholic characters with strong but hurt self-esteem. His first works include Strange Fugitive 1928, A Native Argosy 1929, A Broken Journey 1928 and Such is my Beloved 1934. In the following years until 1950 he wrote largely journalistic texts. His masterpiece is the novel The Loved and the Lost from 1951. His later works include: The Many Colored Coat (1960), A Passion in Rome (1961), Stories (1967), A Fine and Private Place (1975), A Time for Judas (1983), Our Lady of the Snows (1985) and A Wild Old Man Down the Road (1988).

Callaghan has received several awards for his work (including the Lome Pierce Medal). In 1982 he was appointed Member of the Order of Canada . In 1986 he received the Toronto Book Awards for Our Lady of the Snows from the City of Toronto .

He had two children, Michael and Barry, the latter became a writer himself. Callaghan died after a brief illness at the age of 87.

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Novels
  • Strange Fugitive - 1928
  • It's Never Over - 1930
  • A Broken Journey - 1932
  • Such Is My Beloved - 1934
  • They Shall Inherit the Earth - 1935
  • More Joy in Heaven - 1937
  • The Loved and the Lost - 1951
  • The Many Colored Coat - 1960 (reissued as The Man with the Coat , 1988)
  • A Passion in Rome - 1961
  • A Fine and Private Place - 1975
  • A Time for Judas - 1983
  • Our Lady of the Snows - 1985 (based on his novel The Enchanted Pimp )
  • A Wild Old Man on the Road - 1988
Novellas
  • No Man's Meat . 1931
  • Two fishermen. 1934
    • Translator Helmut von Einsiedel: Two men fishing , told in Canada. Edited by Stefana Sabin. Fischer TB 10930, Frankfurt 1992, pp. 33-44
    • Übers. Walter E. Riedel: The two anglers, in Modern Tellers of the World: Canada. Horst Erdmann , Stuttgart 1976, pp. 157-166
  • Luke Baldwin's Vow - 1948 (Reissued The Vow , 2006)
  • The Varsity Story - 1948
  • An Autumn Penitent - 1973 (and In His Own Country )
  • Close to the Sun Again - 1977
  • No Man's Meat and The Enchanted Pimp - 1978
Short stories
  • A Native Argosy - 1929
  • Now That April's Here and Other Stories - 1936
  • Morley Callaghan's Stories . 1959
    • Excerpt, translator Gerhard Böttcher: A sick visit. In the long journey. Canadian short stories and short stories. Volk und Welt publishing house , Berlin 1974, pp. 17–26
  • Stories - 1967
  • The Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callaghan - 1985
  • The Morley Callaghan Reader - 1997
  • The New Yorker Stories. 2001
  • The Complete Stories. (four volumes) 2003
  • The Sentimentalists.
Non-fiction
  • That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Some Others . 1963
  • Winter . 1974
Plays
  • Turn Again Home (based on the novel They Shall Inherit the Earth , produced in New York 1940, and performed under the title Going Home in Toronto 1950)
  • Just Ask George (produced in Toronto, 1940)
  • To Tell the Truth (produced in Toronto, 1949)
  • Season of the Witch . 1976

Adaptations

Film adaptations

literature

  • Boire, Gary A., Morley Callaghan and His Works - 1990
  • Boire, Gary A., Morley Callaghan: Literary Anarchist - 1994
  • Cameron, Donald, Conversations with Canadian Novelists, Part Two - 1973
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 68: Canadian Writers, 1920–1959, First Series - 1988
  • Morley, Patricia, Morley Callaghan - 1978
  • Orange, John, Orpheus in Winter: Morley Callaghan's The Loved and the Lost - 1993
  • Sutherland, Fraser, The Style of Innocence - 1972
  • Wilson, Edmund, O Canada - 1965
  • George Woodcock : Moral Predicament: Morley Callaghan's "More Joy in Heaven". 1993
  • Johann Hofmann-Herreros: Difficult way home. Notes on the image of the priest in some of Morley Callaghan's stories. In: Word and Answer. Dominican Journal for Faith and Society, 18, Ostfildern 1977 ISSN  0342-6378 pp. 53–58

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This date of birth is mentioned in the Canadian encyclopedia. In contrast to this, the Encyclopädia Britannica mentions September 22, 1903
  2. ^ A b Clara Thomas: Canadian Novelists 1920-1945 , Longmans, Green & Co, Toronto 1946, pp. 17f.
  3. ↑ 1982
  4. ↑ full text ; from: Esquire
personal data
SURNAME Callaghan, Morley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1990
Place of death Toronto , Ontario