Cynthia Flood
Cynthia Flood ( born September 17, 1940 in England ) is a Canadian writer, authored preferably short stories and has also written a novel. In 1990 she won the Journey Prize for her short stories.
Life
Cynthia Flood was established in 1940 as the daughter of novelist Luella Bruce Creighton ( 1901-1996 ) and the historian Donald Creighton ( 1902-1979 ) was born in England and came to Toronto, where she grew up with two years.
After studying at the University of Toronto, she spent several years in the United States, including New York, then in Toronto and Montreal. In 1969 she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Over the years she was active in various socialist, feminist, pacifist and environmental protect citizens' movement generic groupings. Even in her time as an English teacher at Langara College. Mid-1980s, she published three textbooks for members of the First Nation. In addition, she has taught creative writing at Writing & publishing program at Simon Fraser University.
Cynthia Flood's short story collections include, among others, The Animals In Their Elements ( Talon Books, 1987 ) and My Father Took A Cake To France ( Talon Books, 1992 ). The same cover story of the last publication won the 1990 Journey Prize. The Journey Prize has been founded in 1989 Canadian Literature Prize, which is awarded annually by the publishing house McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short story of an aspiring writer who has been published in a Canadian literary magazine. Ever her short stories were subsequently in various literary magazines, including The New Quarterly, CNQ, Event, Grain, published anthologies, as well as North America. So also appeared in Best Canadian Stories three of them.
Your first novel published Flood with Making A Stone of the Heart ( Key Porter, 2002).
The last short story collection Floods, The English Stories, brought her publisher released in April 2009. The reviewer for the Globe and Mail, Lynda Grace Philippsen, described it as "perfect summer reading. Without being trite light or it can be picked up and put down with ease, and the characters linger with the reader long after. "-" Perfect read for the summer. Without too easy or to be shallow, it can be taken without trouble and ended again, and the characters go to the reading for a long time close. " The short stories contained in it playing in England of the 1950s in a small hotel for permanent residents and at a girls school. One of the stories, Religious Knowledge, won the Gold National Magazine Award in 2000, after it was published in PRISM International Magazine. A more History, Learning To Dance has been added by the editor John Metcalf in the selection of Best Canadian Stories 2008.
Currently she is working on another short story collection with the working title of Red Boy Girl Council and is active politically continue.
Work
- Composition and Native Indian literature I: ENGL 102 Open Learning Institute, Richmond, British Columbia 1984 2nd edition 1986..
- Composition and Native Indian literature II: ENGL 103 Open Learning Institute, Richmond, British Columbia in 1985.
- Through native eyes. : Open Learning Institute, Richmond, British Columbia in 1985.
- The animals in Their elements. Talon Books, Vancouver, 1987, ISBN 0-88922-249-5.
- My father Took a cake to France. Talon Books, Vancouver 1992, ISBN 0-88922-310-6.
- The English Stories. Biblioasis, Emeryville, Ontario in 2009, ISBN 978-1-897231-56-2
- Making a stone of the heart. Key Porter, Toronto 2002, ISBN 1-55263-452-3.
Reviews
- " Flood artfully transplants the conventions of the Canadian Gothic storyform and its obsession with death, isolation, madness, and natural landscape into the static, provincial milieu of the genteel British lower- middle classes Enshrined in the works of VS Pritchett. (...) Taken together, the stories Ultimately achieve achievement a brooding resonance did captures the literal and spiritual dampness of a provincial scene did all but died out with the load remnants of the British empire ". - " Flood transmits artfully the conventions of Canadian Gothic history and his passion for death, isolation, madness and landscape has been described in the static, provincial milieu of pleasant British middle class as in the works of VS Pritchett. Taken together, the stories combine a seething resonance that captures the literary and spiritual dullness of the provincial scene, which was already extinct with the demise of the British Empire. "- James Grainger, Quill & Quire
- " Vancouver writer Cynthia Flood Has won a slew of prizes for her fiction, and her latest book, a collection of linked short stories called The English Stories, shows why the accolades are so well deserved. Flood is a thoughtful writer Whose richly dense prose opens up worlds to explore. " " The writer Cynthia Flood has won a handful of awards for her stories, and her latest work, a collection of interconnected short stories entitled The English Stories, shows why these honors were well deserved. Flood is an imaginative writer whose highly compressed prose gives us a world to discover. "- Candace Fertile, Vancouver Sun
- "Women writers, most of them experts at subtexts and subversion, need language did speaks Their Own truth. In thesis 15 stories, Flood's Varied and occasionally experimental narrative techniques give her scope to reveal her Concerns without being didactic (...) A distinctive voice is already audible in the best of synthesis stories ". "Female writers, most of them experts in the subtext and subversion, need a language that expresses their own truth. In these 15 stories Flood varied their preferred experimental narrative techniques without being didactic. (...). A distinct voice can be heard in the best of these stories. "- Patricia Maika, Vancouver Sun
- " In Making a Stone of the Heart, author Cynthia Flood's characters do not just breathe, They bristle with life. " " In Making a Stone of the Heart, the characters Cynthia Floods not only breathe, they burst literally full of life ." - Linda L. Richards, Januarymagazine
- " With Making a Stone of the Heart, (...) Cynthia Flood ( ... ) delivers a lyrically challenging and stylistically dazzling first novel did Nevertheless miscarries ( albeit spectacularly ) in did increasingly barren sub- genre of literary fiction aiming to sell its wares to the Upwardly futile among the malltitudes. (...) No doubt, Flood, having broken into the genre, will handily break out of the shackles of contemporary anti- fiction to write the novel her gifts demand. "