Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti (2013)

Sheila Heti (born December 25, 1976 in Toronto ) is a Canadian writer .

Life

Sheila Heti's parents are Jewish emigrants from Hungary , one grandmother is a Holocaust survivor . Heti studied art history and philosophy at the University of Toronto and dramaturgy at the National Theater School of Canada. She has been working as a freelance writer since then and writes in other genres besides fiction.

Works (selection)

• The middle stories . Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2001
  • The woman who lived in a shoe and other fabulous stories . Translation Monika Schmalz. Berlin: Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2002
• Ticknor: A Novel . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2006
• with Misha Glouberman: The Chairs Are Where the People Go . 2011
• We need a horse . Children's book. Illustr. Clare Rojas. McSweeney's, San Francisco 2011
• How should a person be? A novel from life . Henry Holt, 2012
  • How should we be : a novel from life . Translation by Thomas Überhoff. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2014
• with Leanne Shapton and Heidi Julavits (eds.): Women in Clothes . Penguin, London 2014
  • Women and dresses. What we wear how we are . Translation Sophie Zeitz, Britt Somann. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2015 (abridged edition)
• All Our Happy Days Are Stupid . McSweeney's, San Francisco 2015
• Seth and Sheila stayed behind . Short story. Photographs by Seth Fluker. New Documents, Vancouver 2015
• Motherhood . Henry Holt, 2018
  • Motherhood . Translation by Thomas Überhoff. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2019

literature

• Liz Hoggard: I love dirty books . Interview, The Guardian , Jan. 19, 2013
• Peter Praschl: No fuss , Literary World , March 15, 2014, p. 3
• Catherine Taylor: Legacy Issues . Review, Financial Times , May 26, 2018, pp. L & A11
• Horatia Harrod: I don't have to imagine anything , review, Financial Times, June 23, 2018, p. L & A11
• Anne Backhaus: Don't give birth to children . Interview, in: SZ, February 16, 2019, p. 18

Web links

Commons : Sheila Heti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Sheila Heti in the catalog of the German National Library , incomplete, search by name required
• Literature by and about Sheila Heti in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sheila Heti at perlentaucher.de
• Sheila Heti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview with Sheila Heti on “Motherhood” , March 31, 2019 on Swiss television SRF
• Review of «Motherhood» in the Guardian by Emma Brockes, May 25, 2018
• Review of «Motherhood» in the New Yorker by Alexandra Schwartz, April 30, 2018