Joyce Marshall
Joyce Marshall | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1913年11月28日)November 28, 1913 Montréal |
| Died | October 22, 2005(2005年10月22日) (aged 91) Toronto |
| Occupation | novelist, translator |
| Language | English |
Joyce Marshall (November 28, 1913[1] – October 22, 2005[2] ) was a Canadian writer and translator.
Biography
[edit ]The daughter of William Marshall and Joyce Chambers, she was born in Montreal [1] and was educated there and in the Eastern Townships.[3] She went on to earn a BA from McGill University, where she was the first woman to become a senior editor for The McGill Daily .[1] Although she continued to improve her fluency in French, Marshall did not feel at home in the conservative Quebec of the Duplessis era and moved to Toronto in 1937.[4] She was a reader and editor for the CBC Radio programs Canadian short stories and Anthologies, where many of her short stories first aired. She also was writer-in-residence at Trent University.[1]
She had begun writing at a young age and published her first novel Presently Tomorrow in 1946. It was followed by Lovers and Strangers in 1957.[5] Marshall also published a number of collections of short stories: A Private Place (1975), Any Time at All and Other Stories (1993) and Blood and Bone/En chair et en os (1995). Her stories have been included in various anthologies.[4]
Marshall translated the works of Gabrielle Roy and Marie of the Incarnation into English.[1] She received a Canada Council Prize for translation in 1976.[5] She was a founding member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada.[3] Her literary reviews and essays have appeared in the Tamarack Review , Books in Canada and Canadian Literature . She also contributed to the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.[4]
She died in Toronto at the age of 91.[6]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e New, William H, ed. (2002). "Marshall, Joyce". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. pp. 716–17. ISBN 0-8020-0761-9.
- ^ source
- ^ a b Marshall, Joyce; Roy, Gabrielle (2014). Everett, Jane (ed.). In Translation: The Gabrielle Roy-Joyce Marshall Correspondence. p. 9. ISBN 978-1442658844.
- ^ a b c Whitfield, Agnes (2006). Writing Between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0889204926.
- ^ a b Nischik, Reingard M (2007). The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations. pp. 141–44. ISBN 978-1571131270.
- ^ "Joyce Marshall, 1913-2005" (PDF). Transmission. 25 (3). Literary Translators' Association of Canada: 2. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015年05月18日. Retrieved 2015年05月14日. Month of death "september" is wrong.
Further reading
[edit ]- Everett, Jane: Joyce Marshall, or the accidental translator. In: Writing Between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators. Agnes Whitfield, ed. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2006. pp. 53–74
- 1913 births
- 2005 deaths
- Canadian women short story writers
- Canadian women novelists
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian translators
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- Writers from Montreal
- McGill University alumni
- Anglophone Quebec people
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers