Pauline Holdstock
Pauline Holdstock ( born 1948 ) is an English-born Canadian essayist and writer of historical novels, which received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel Beyond Measure 2005.
Life
Pauline Holdstock was born in 1948 in the UK. She came to Canada in 1974 and since then has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Her novel The Blackbird 's Song (1987 ) In 1987, shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. The 2003 published historical novel Beyond Measure was nominated for the Giller Prize, Scotiabank, however, won the BC Book Prizes to the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize belonging.
Pauline Holdstock is active in addition, as an essayist and literary critic. She taught creative writing at the Victoria School of Writing, University of Victoria and the Banff Centre Wired Writing Studio.
Not about one of their award-winning or nominated novels has been translated into German, but her second work, the novel The burial ground under the title The burial ground even in the year of publication of the original edition in 1991.
A rare and curious poison is loosely based on the life of the Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who successfully attempts to take over her father's studio, while at the same time withstand the hostile environment of their male and their attraction force to the sculptor Matteo Tassi.
Work
- The Blackbird 's Song. Simon & Pierre, Toronto, 1987, ISBN 0-88924-191-0.
- The Burial Ground ( 1991), ISBN 0-921586-25-6 ( novella ) The burial ground. Translation by Peter Tree, Tree, Idstein / Taunus, 1991, ISBN 3-9802155-6-3.
- Mortal Distractions. Thistledown Press, Saskatoon, Sask. 2004, ISBN 1-894345-66-5.