Stephen Henighan

Stephen Henighan (born July 19, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a Canadian journalist , writer and translator of German origin. He has written several novels, short stories, non-fiction books and essays.

Life

In 1965 Henighan came to Canada with his family. He grew up in the countryside in the province of Ontario . There he completed his school days and then began u. a. Political science at Swarthmore College ( Pennsylvania study).

Between 1984 and 1992 Henighan studied at Concordia University in Montreal and was able to complete this course with an MA . During these years he earned his living as a freelance journalist. He later went to Wadham College ( University of Oxford ) where he received his PhD in Latin American literature in 1996 . This was followed by further study visits to Colombia , Romania and Germany.

In 1996 Henighan was entrusted with a teaching position (Latin American literature) at Queen Mary & Westfield College ( University of London ). At the end of 1998 he returned to his homeland and from 1999 Henighan has been teaching at the University of Guelph (Ontario). At the same time he acts as editor of the Biblioasis Edition at Windsor (Ontario) .

reception

In addition to his journalistic work and the various technical writings as a lecturer, a small literary oeuvre has emerged over the years. In addition to his three novels, the focus is on many short stories . These have been and are published almost regularly in journals and magazines such as The Times Literary Supplement , The Walrus , The Globe and Mail, and the Montreal Gazette .

Works (selection)

author

Novels

• Other Americans. A novel . Simon & Pierre, Toronto 1990, ISBN 0-8892-4218-6 .
• The places where names vanish . Thistledown Press, Saskatoon 1998, ISBN 1-89544-977-4 .
• The streets of winter . Thistledown Press, Saskatoon 2004, ISBN 1-89434-576-2 .

Short stories

• Nights in the Yungas . Thistledown Press, Saskatoon 1992, ISBN 0-92063-397-8 .
• North of Tourism . Cormorant Books, Dunvegam 1999, ISBN 1-896951-13-9 .
• A grave in the air . Thistledown Press, Saskatoon 2007, ISBN 978-1-89723-529-4 .

Non-fiction

• Assuming the light. The Parisian literary apprenticeship of Miguel Ángel Asturias . Legenda Edition, Oxford 1999, ISBN 1-900755-19-X .
• When words deny the world. The reshaping of Canadian Writing . The Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ont. 2002, ISBN 0-88984-240-X .
• A report on the afterlife of culture . Biblioasis Edition, Emeryville 2008, ISBN 978-1-89723-142-5 .
• Lost Province. Adventures in a Moldovan Family . Beach Holme Publ., Vancouver 2002, ISBN 0-88878-432-5 .
• A green reef. The Impact of Climate Change . Linda Leith Publishing, Westmont, Quebec 2013, ISBN 978-1-927535271 .
  • German: Our world in danger. Climate change and civilization . Alouette Verlag, Oststeinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-924324-17-9 .

Essays

• Caribbean Masks. Frantz Fanon and Alejo Carpentier . In: Robin W. Fiddian (Ed.): Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa . University Press, Liverpool 2000, ISBN 0-85323-576-7 .
• History after History's End . In: Irene M. Blayer, Mark C. Anderson (Eds.): Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity. Selected readings . Peter Lang Verlag, New York 2004, ISBN 0-8204-6320-5 , pp. 62-75.

Translations

• Ondjaki : Good Morning Comrades. A novel (“Bom dias, comarades”). Biblioasis Edition, Emeryville 2008, ISBN 978-1-89723-140-1 .
• Mihail Sebastian : The accident. A Novel ("Accidental"). Biblioasis Edition, Emeryville 2011, ISBN 978-1-926845-16-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Militias everywhere - who will survive climate change? in FAZ of September 21, 2015, page 18