Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb ( born February 20, 1968 in London, United Kingdom) is a Canadian writer who comes from England and for decades in Toronto, Ontario, lives.

Life

Camilla Gibb was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto. There she attended the North Toronto Collegiate Institute and the Jarvis Collegiate Institute. She then studied at the American University in Cairo, before putting them in anthropology and Middle East studies received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and received his doctorate at the University of Oxford in Social Anthropology. She left the university environment in 2000, to devote himself entirely to writing.

Camilla Gibb was already with her first novel in 1999 Note: Mouthing the Words ( What nobody is talking about 2001. ). 2000 won the short story, in which it comes to incest displaced, the City of Toronto Book Award and the 2001 CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction. Gibbs second novel, The Petty Details of So- and- So 's Life was released in August 2002. Her third novel Sweetness in the Belly (2005) was directed against the oppression of the Ethiopian revolution and plays mainly in the surrounded by ancient walls, the city of Harar. The book was shortlisted for the Giller Prize 2005 Scotiabank, on the long list of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and won the Trillium Book Award for the best work in Ontario in 2006.

Her fourth novel, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, was released in Canada in September, in the United States and the United Kingdom in early 2011.

Her works have been translated into thirteen languages.

Work

• Mouthing the Words. 1999 What no one speaks. Translated from English by Monika lard, Berliner Taschenbuch -Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-442-76003-8.

• The story of Emma and Blue. Translated from English by Monika lard, Berliner Taschenbuch -Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8333-0056-6