Carol Shields

Carol Shields; Born Warner, CC, OM, FRSC ( born June 2, 1935 in Oak Park, Illinois, † July 16, 2003 in Victoria, British Columbia) was a Canadian writer and poet.

Life

Carol Shields made ​​in 1957 her Bachelor degree from Hanover College, Indiana (USA), in English philology. In 1957 she married Donald Hugh Shields, engineer and later a professor, with whom she emigrated in his native Canada.

After she had completed a course in creative writing at the University of Toronto, she won a 1965 sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation writing contest. She became a Canadian citizen in 1971, received her master's degree with a thesis on Susanna Moodie at the University of Ottawa, where she became a professor. She also taught at the University of British Columbia, and the University of Manitoba, where she was Chancellor University in 1996. Shields was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, 2002 Companion of the Order of Canada in 1998.

The Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence learned his first Entwicklunge in spring 2002 thanks to their initiative. Led by the experienced author met a group of renowned writers of British Columbia with the former provincial governor of British Columbia (Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia), Iona Campagnolo, to call a special provincial literary prize in life. That meeting resulted in the establishment of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, which is awarded as all other seven literary awards of the BC Book Prizes since 2004 in April of each year.

Work

For her first novel, Small Ceremonies Shields received the 1977 Award of the Canadian Authors Association. My 1988 with the Arthur Ellis Award-winning crime novel Mary Swann was made ​​into a film in 1996 by Anna Benson Gyles. In 1993 she published her novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Year of the Governor General's Award for Fiction has been awarded as the best novel of 1995. Followed in 1990 for her complete works of Marian Engel Award. In 2003 she received the Ethel Wilson Fiction for Unless Prize.

Carol Shields work is characterized by the detection of interesting details in the lives of ordinary people and their relationships to each other. A major theme Shields, approximately in Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden, are women's friendships and the moral and intellectual inner world of women, particularly of artists. Shields devoted himself repeatedly the subject of marriage. Happenstance and A Fairly Conventional Woman is told alternately from the perspective of both spouses.

Works

• Susanna Moodie: voice and vision (1972 )
• Jane Austen ( Biography, 2001)

• Various Miracles (1986 )
• The Orange Fish (1989 )
• Dressing Up for the Carnival (2000)
• The Collected Stories ( 2004)

• David Helwig, Sandra Martin, Frances Itani, Carol Shields, Gwendolyn MacEwen, David Lewis, and Tom Marshall, Bonnie Burnard, Elizabeth Spencer, Nora Keeling; Héléne Holden; Robin Mathews; Audrey Callahan Thomas; Mavis Gallant: 84 best Canadian stories. Edited by David Helwig and Sandra Martin, Oberon Press, Ottawa 1984. ISBN 0-887-50545-7.

• Small ceremonies (1976 ), nominated at the Books in Canada First Novel Award
• The box garden (1977 )
• Happenstance (1980 )
• A fairly Conventional woman (1982 )
• Mary Swann ( Swann: a mystery, 1987)
• A celibate season (1991, with Blanche Howard)
• You and he - he and she: the novel a normal marriage ( Happenstance, 1991)
• The sweet tyranny of love (The Republic of Love, 1992)
• The Diary of Daisy Goodwill ( The stone diaries, 1993)
• About Larry ( Larry's Party, 1998)
• The story of Reta Winters ( Unless, 2002)

• Others (1972)
• Intersect (1974 )
• Coming to Canada (1992 )

• Departures and Arrivals (1990; premiere in Manitoba 1984)
• Fashion, power guilt, (1995, with Catherine Shields, her daughter )
• Thirteen hands ( 1993, first performance in 1993 in Winnipeg Prairie Theatre Exchange)