Howard Norman
Auteur de The Bird Artist
A propos de l'auteur
Howard Norman was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1949 and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended Western Michigan University, the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. His work with the Cree Indians created an interest and he then got a job as a translator of afficher plus Native American poems and folktales. He put together a collection of his translations in the book, The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians, which was named the co-winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by the Academy of American Poets. With the Help of a Whiting Award, he has also written The Northern Lights as well as Kiss in the Hotel, Joseph Conrad and Other Stories, and The Bird Artist, which was named one of Time Magazine's Best Five Books of 1994 and won the New England Booksellers Association Prize in Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Howard Norman
My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries, and Preoccupations (Directions) (2004) 64 exemplaires
In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic (2005) 48 exemplaires
Tales of the Sea 1 exemplaire
Come to the Window: A Novel 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell (2001) — Contributeur — 193 exemplaires
When I Was Your Age, Volume Two: Original Stories About Growing Up (1999) — Contributeur — 92 exemplaires
Lafayette Life: Words and Images Since 1928: The History of One Neighborhood School in Washington D.C. (1999) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 2 exemplaires
New World Journal #5 — Traducteur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Norman, Howard
- Date de naissance
- 1949-03-04
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
Canada - Lieu de naissance
- Toledo, Ohio, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Labrador, Canada
Newfoundland, Canada - Études
- Western Michigan University (graduate)
Indiana University - Professions
- educator
writer - Relations
- Shore, Jane (wife)
- Prix et distinctions
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1996)
Whiting Writers' Award (1985) - Courte biographie
- Although his official bio's all state that Howard Norman isn't Canadian, having been born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Michigan, he now holds dual citizenship and does consider himself Canadian. I have this directly from Mr. Norman, who I met at a book festival on October 3, 2009. When I mentioned that many people are surprised to learn that he is not Canadian, he said "Oh, but I AM." Good enough for me.
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Discussions
The Bird Artist (Bowie's Top 100) à 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Mai 2016)
Critiques
The Bird Artist par Howard Norman
Beautifully written, this novel paints a stark picture of rural life on the coast of Newfoundland. The bright spot in Fabian's life is his passion for birds and painting them. He is close to his parents, and has a complicated friendship with a neighbor young woman. We learn at the beginning that he has murdered the lighthouse keeper, and the story of how and why that happened is the heart of this novel.
8/17/2007: This book has one of the most boring and anticlimactic plot lines that I''ve ever read. It was only the plight of poor Defoe that kept me interested enough to finish reading it. An explanation of Imogen''s "issue" would have helped...as would some sort of intense moment, somewhere.
Another fine novel from Howard Norman.
Wyatt Hillyer tells his life story through a series of long letters to a lost love one. To be honest you soon forget they are letters. Peopled with some wonderful characters.
Wyatt Hillyer tells his life story through a series of long letters to a lost love one. To be honest you soon forget they are letters. Peopled with some wonderful characters.
As the daughter he has not seen since she was a very young child approaches her 21st birthday, Wyatt Hillyer attempts to explain to her--in a long letter--the events that led to her existence, and what she should know about his life both before and after her birth. He feels he has nothing else to leave her. Luminous prose, and a story full of heart.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 30
- Aussi par
- 9
- Membres
- 3,460
- Popularité
- #7,352
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 115
- ISBN
- 147
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 8