Kim Echlin

Kim Echlin actually Kimberly Ann Echlin ( born 1955 ) is a Canadian writer, university teacher and writer of documentaries, which was awarded in 1997 with the Books in Canada First Novel Award.

Life

Echlin studied at the University of Toronto (UT ) and was able to complete this study in 1982 with her ​​doctorate in ethnology successful. Then she lived and worked for some years in Paris. After extensive travel to and through China (Cambodia ), Africa (Malawi, Rhodesia ) and overseas (Marshall Islands) she returned to her hometown.

Echlin is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada and teaches since 1997 at the School for Continuing Studies ( University of Toronto ) Creative Writing. She also worked as a lecturer in journalism at Ryerson School of Journalism, University of Guelph and York University.

In addition, she has produced television documentaries for CBC / Radio -Canada and independent television companies such as Color me free (2007). From 1985 to 1990 she produced The Journal, an art magazine.

Echlin is married and lives with her husband and children in Toronto.

Review

The English-language critics praised The Disappeared as a work of the proportions of a Greek tragedy and raised the style of the author out: ". This book is a miracle of economy Whose short sentences and ellipses Often draw on the powerful brevity of short - story technique"

The German -language literary criticism took her sixth album, which was first translated into German, " The Lost Lovers", 2009 against the background of the first trial against members of the bloody dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia due to the authenticity, the frugal language on the essentials is limited and as a " contribution against forgetting " positively. The Swiss critics praised the paperback edition under the new title in the middle of the river yet effusive: " The author finds a good measure for us mercilessly show how terrible war suffering and genocide and places but also a unique exciting and beautiful story. "

Honors

Works (selection)

As author

  • Elephant winter. A novel. Carroll & Graf, New York 1999, ISBN 0-7867-0610-4.
  • Dagmar 's daughter. Peguin Books, Toronto 2001, ISBN 0-14-317059-7.
  • Inanna: From the Myth of Ancient Sumer. ( Children's book ) Illustrated by Linda Wolf Gruber, Groundwood Books, Toronto, 2003.
  • The disappeared. Black Cat, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8021-7066-8. The Lost lovers. From the Canadian English by Claudia Feldmann. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-378-01104-5.
  • Among other title than in the middle of the river. Construction paperback publisher, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7466-2690-1.
  • The translation of the Ojibway. The nanabush myths. University Press, New York 1982, ISBN 0-315-08632-7 ( zugl. dissertation, New York University, 1982).
  • Bibliography of Canadian Indian mythology. Ethnological Association, Nortorf 1988.
  • Elizabeth Smart. A fugue essay on women and creativity. Women's Press, Totonto 2004, ISBN 0-88961-442-3.
  • Inanna. From the myths of ancient sumer. Groundwood Books, Toronto 2003, ISBN 0-88899-496-6.

, as Issuer

  • Barbara Moon: To arrive where you are. Literary journalism from the Banff Centre for the Arts. BCP, Banff 2000, ISBN 0-920159-71-0.

As a translator

  • Ke Yuan: Dragon and dynasties. An introduction to Chinese mythology. Penguin Books, New York 1993, ISBN 0-14-058653-9.
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