Carol Birch

Carol Birch ( born 1951 in Manchester ) is a British writer.

Life

Carol Birch studied from 1968 to 1972 at Keele University English and American Studies. After her studies, she moved to London to work for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. A short time later, she moved with her husband to West Ireland, where she wrote her first novel Life in the Palace, for which she won the David Higham Award for the best debut of the year. With her ​​second novel The Fog Line (German: On the edge of twilight ), she won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

After eight years, Birch returned to London, but her stay in Ireland had continued thematic influence on her work, such as in Songs of the West, where she describes life in a small Irish village, or in The Naming of Eliza Quinn, in which they discussed the great famine in Ireland in mid -19th century.

With their current and novel Jamrach 's Menagerie now 11 ( Eng.: The breath of the World) was Birch on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize in 2011, the most important British literary award.

She currently lives with her family in Lancaster.

Publications

  • Life in the Palace. Novel. In 1988.
  • The Fog Line. Novel. In 1989. German: On the edge of twilight. Translated from English by Mechtild Sandberg - Ciletti, dtv, Munich 1999.
  • German: Woman at the sea. Translated from English by Mechtild Sandberg - Ciletti, dtv, Munich 1996.
  • German: The lost sister. Translated from English by Mechtild Sandberg - Ciletti, dtv, Munich 2004.
  • German: the breath of the world. Translated from English by Christel Dormagen, Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-17544-5.
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