Leona Gom
Leona Gom ( born 1946 in Alberta, Canada ) is a Canadian novelist, poet and high school teacher who wrote both poetry and mystery novels and thrillers. In addition, she won the Canadian Authors Association once each Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Life
Leona Gom was born in 1946 on a remote farm in northeastern Alberta and raised on. Your studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton she graduated with a B.Ed. and M. A. from. She taught for many years thereafter English at the Douglas and Kwantlen College and at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia. For about ten years she worked as an editor at the award-winning magazine event. She received a writer-in -residence position at the University of Alberta, the University of Lethbridge and the University of Winnipeg.
Her work includes some diaries and over 50 anthologies, only four of her crime novels about her fictional heroine Vicky Bauer were translated into German and a novel into French. The film rights of her novel The Y chromosomes were acquired and the text of which was received by both gender studies and sociology courses in Canada and the United States.
In 1980, she won the Canadian Authors Association Award for her poetry collection Land of the Peace and 1986 were honored her novel Housebroken with the belonging to the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Leona Gom archive is hosted by the University of Calgary since 1993. Due to their origin, is one of them next to Anne Campbell, Lorna Crozier, Kim Morrissey and Anne Szumigalski poets on the Prairie.
Work
- House Broken ( Edmonton: NEWEST, 1986) and ( Toronto: Paper Jacks, 1989)
- Zero Avenue ( Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1989) Unexpected arrival. From the Canadian English by Margaret longitudinal field, Orlanda woman Verlag, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-922166-75- X. ( 2nd Ed Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11558-2 )
- Le chromosome Y. Trad. Sylvie Bérard et Suzanne Grenier, Alire, Quebec 2000. ISBN 2-922-14541-7
- Vicky and the murder in the viewfinder. From the Canadian English by Ingrid liver. Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14795-6.
- Vicky and the double game. From the Canadian English Live by Ingrid Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-14796-4.
- Vicky and the enigmatic photos. From the Canadian English by Christel Dormagen, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-14797-2.
- Kindling ( Fredericton: Fiddlehead, 1972)
- The Singletree ( Victoria: Sono Nis, 1975)
- Land of the Peace ( Saskatoon: Thistledown, 1980)
- Northbound (Saskatoon: Thistledown, 1984)
- Private Properties ( Victoria: Sono Nis, 1986)
- The Collected Poems ( Victoria: Sono Nis, 1991)