Eden Robinson
Eden Victoria Lena Robinson ( born January 19, 1968 in Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada ) is a Canadian writer who with the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize has been awarded for her novel Monkey Beach 2001.
Life
Eden Robinson was born in Kitamaat as members of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. She studied at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia. To finance her studies, she worked as a mail carrier, Housekeeper and receptionist. Your first positively captured by the criticism book, Traplines (1995), was a collection of four long short stories. The young narrator describes events eingängliche about their relationships with sociopaths and psychopaths. This collection was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize for the British best regional work of a writer from the Commonwealth. One of the four story Queen of the North was included in the collection The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women. Another of her short stories, Terminal Avenue, which was not published in Traplines, Thus was published in the anthology to Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy Long Been Dreaming. Born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King belonged, according to their words to her first literary models.
Her second book, Monkey Beach (2000), was a Roman who plays in the territory of the Haisla, particularly in the village of Kitamaat. It follows the search of a female teenager looking for answers and understanding why her younger brother disappeared at sea. In retrospect, the novel tells a story about growing up on the reservation of the Haisla. The book is both a criminal case as well as a spiritual journey, combining the comparative realism with the mysticism of the Haisla. Monkey Beach was on the shortlist for the Giller Prize and the Scotiabank Governor General's Award for Fiction. After all, it won the belonging to the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Robinson returned to her third book, Blood Sport ( 2006), also a novel back to the characters and the urban environment in its history Contact Sports of Traplines.
Some literary critics wanted to see her as a writer who draws a line between the historical stories of colonialism and contemporary pop culture, the author herself but withdrew this assignment by pointing out that they would prefer it over manifestations of pop culture or just that writing topic, what they just amuse.
Eden Robinson was awarded the University of Victoria's Distinguished Alumni Award. Her sister, Carla Robinson, is a Canadian television journalist for CBC Newsworld.
Her works have been translated into German, Estonian, French and Dutch. The author lives in North Vancouver.
Work
- Traplines (1996 ), ISBN 0-8050-4446-9 Traps. Stories. German by Sabine Hedinger, Rowohl Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 978-349923-206-0
- Beach of the spirits. German by Sabine Hedinger, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 978-349805-746-6.
Awards and nominations
Review
- "This compilation of lectures givenName by storyteller and author Eden Robinson at the 2010 Canadian Literature Centre 's Henry Kriesel Lecture Series, When bound and printed, Maintains the inherent qualities of good poetry, biography, as well as the truly wonderful storytelling abilities For Which Robinson is known. Together in book form, the lectures become a unique gathering of quirky family vignettes did reach outside the intimacies of a single family and delve into the more complex dynamics of the community. Robinson looks at the politics of naming within the Haisla tradition, the ownership of stories, and the desire to preserve oral traditions through the acts of writing and telling stories. "
- "Since publishing Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson HAS BEEN one of Canada 's most engaging writers .... Her latest work is flat out delicious reading, entertaining and informative at the sametime .... That's Robinson's method- righteous storytelling, straight from the heart. With this new one, Robinson Further cements her place as a national treasure. "