Audrey Thomas
Audrey Grace Thomas, OC, as Audrey Grace Callahan ( born November 17, 1935 in Binghamton, New York ) is a Canadian writer US- American descent, the 1987 Marian Engel Award was awarded for her work as a whole and as the sole author of three times the Ethel Wilson Fiction could achieve Prize.
Life
When Audrey Grace Callaham born in Binghamton, New York, in 1959, she emigrated to Canada, where she studied at the University of British Columbia and later taught. During her studies she was a friend of Danuta Gleed, Frances Itani, Bryan Moon and Rita Donovan. From 1964 to 1966 she lived in Ghana. The local adventures and experiences left a big impression in their literary work, for which she was in 1987 with the Marian Engel Award.
My first published short story, If One Green Bottle ..., appeared in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly, and was awarded the Atlantic First Award, so that from it the publication of her first short story collection, Ten Green Bottles (1967 ) resulted. The story takes on the subject of miscarriage, a constantly recurring theme in her oeuvre, in which it often comes to the loss of children. Other prevalent themes revolve around the position of the artist in the real world and its illusions. Many of her works have an autobiographical reference. Even if the actual story in songs My Mother Taught Me ( 1973) is fictional independent, there are parallels between the protagonist and Thomas: the memory of his grandfather, spending the summer months in the house on the lake, eventually working in a mental hospital. Mrs. Blood ( 1970) and Blown Figures ( 1974) continue the story of Isobel Cleary continued, both stories take place in Africa and also grab the theme of guilt and miscarriage on. The style of the two novels was quite innovative by alternating between two levels of observation or narrative voices and used props from newspaper articles, encyclopedias definitions and hospital poems.
As a single, she received three times the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Intertidal Life (1984 ), Wild Blue Yonder (1990) and Coming Down from Wa ( 1995). 2008 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Some of her works include the historical novels and have been translated into Dutch, French and Italian - but not in German.
Audrey Thomas lives on Galiano Iceland, British Columbia.
Work
- Mrs. Blood - 1970
- Songs My Mother Taught Me - 1973
- Blown Figures - 1974
- Latakia - 1979
- Intertidal Life - 1984 ( nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction )
- Graven Images - 1993
- Coming Down from Wa - 1995 ( nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction )
- Isobel Gunn - 1999
- Tattycoram - 2005.
- Ten Green Bottles - 1967
- Ladies and escorts - 1977
- Real Mothers - 1981
- Two in the Bush and Other Stories - 1981
- Goodbye Harold, Good Luck - 1986
- The Wild Blue Yonder - 1990
- The Path of Totality - 2001.