Pauline Holdstock

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Pauline Holdstock (* 1948 ) is a British-born Canadian essayist and writer of historical novels , which in 2005 the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel Beyond Measure received.

Life

Pauline Holdstock was born in the United Kingdom in 1948 . She came to Canada in 1974 and has lived in Vancouver , British Columbia ever since .

Her novel The Blackbird's Song (1987) was in 1987 on the shortlist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award . The published 2003 historical novel Beyond Measure was for the Prize Scotiabank Giller nominated, but won the BC Book Prizes belonging Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize .

Pauline Holdstock is also active as an essayist and literary critic . She has taught creative writing at the Victoria School of Writing, the University of Victoria and the Banff Center Wired Writing Studio.

Not one of her award-winning or nominated novels was translated into German , but her second work, the novella The burial ground under the title Der Bestattungsplatz even in the year of publication of the original edition, 1991.

A rare and curious gift is loosely based on the life of the Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi , who successfully tries to take over her father's studio while at the same time resisting the hostility of her male environment and exerting her attraction on the sculptor Matteo Tassi.

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Novels, short stories and short stories
  • The Blackbird's Song . Simon & Pierre, Toronto 1987, ISBN 0-88924-191-0 .
  • The Burial Ground (1991), ISBN 0-921586-25-6 (novella)
    • The burial place . Translation by Peter Baum, Baum, Idstein / im Taunus 1991, ISBN 3-9802155-6-3 .
  • House . Beach Holme Publishers, Victoria, British Columbia 1994, ISBN 0-88878-353-1
  • Swimming from the Flames . Turnstone Press, Winnipeg 1995, ISBN 0-88801-182-2 (short stories)
  • The Turning . New Star Books, Vancouver 1996, ISBN 0-921586-53-1 .
  • Valentine's day: women against men: stories of revenge . Duck Editions, London 2000.
  • Beyond Measure (2003), ISBN 1-896951-49-X (published in the United States under the title A Rare and Curious Gift , WW Norton, New York 2005)
  • The World of Light Where We Live. In: The Malahat Review . Summer 2006.
  • Into the Heart of the Country . HarperCollins, Toronto 2011, ISBN 978-1554686346 .
Essays

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review: Suzy Hansen: Fiction & Poetry - Chronicle - Fiction - A rare and curious gift . In: The New York Times Book Review , March 6, 2008, p. 17.
  2. ↑ http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/novella_contest/2006_winner.html
personal data
SURNAME Holdstock, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer, literary critic and essayist of British origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH United Kingdom