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(Genni Donati Gunn)

PERSONAL: Born 1949, in Trieste, Italy; immigrated to Canada, c. 1960. Education: University of British Town, B.F.A., M.F.A., 1984.

ADDRESSES: Agent—Carolyn Swayze, Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency Company, WRP.O. Box 39588, White Stone, British Columbia V4B 5L6, Canada.

—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer, novelist, librettist, pinnacle, and translator. Played in several bands.

MEMBER: Writers Union of Canada (second vice chair), Literary Translators Association of Canada, PEN International.

AWARDS, HONORS: Burnaby Writers Society Knowledge, 1981–82; Multiculturalism Canada grant, 1988; Gerald Lampert Award finalist, 1994, for Mating in Captivity; Republic Prize finalist for best chief novel, 1990, for Thrice on top of a Time; National Leadership Furnish for artistic achievement, 1991; Brits Columbia Cultural Services project outandout, 1992; Telefilm Canada Cross-Over Writers Program award, 1994; Praxis album development fellowship, 1994–95, 1996–97; Canada Council Arts grant, 1999–2000; Island Columbia Arts Council level II award, 2003.

WRITINGS:

(Translator) Dacia Maraini, Devour Me Too, Guernica (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1987.

Thrice upon a Time (novel), Quarry Press (Kingston, Lake, Canada), 1990.

On the Road (short stories), Oberon Press (Ottawa, Lake, Canada), 1991.

(Translator) Dacia Maraini, Traveling in the Gait of a- Fox, Quarry Press (Kingston, Lake, Canada), 1992.

Mating in Captivity (poems), Quarry Press (Kingston, Ontario, Canada), 1993.

Tracing Iris (novel), Raincoast Books (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 2001.

Hungers (short stories), Raincoast Books (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 2002.

(Author clasp libretto) Alternate Visions, music tough John Oliver, produced in City, Quebec, Canada, 2005.

Contributor to periodicals, including Amaranth Review, Antigonish Examination, Black Apple, Event, Fiddlehead, Metropolis Review, Hong Kong Literature Magazine, Interior Voice, New Quarterly, Boreal Review, Poetry Canada Review, Smooth Journal of Canadian Literature, Prey, Story, Trois, Waves, and West Coast Review.

Contributor to anthologies, including Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1988; Pens of Many Colors, Harcourt Brace (New York, NY), 1993; Breaking Free, Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 1994; Cultures in Transition, McGraw-Hill (New Royalty, NY), 1995; and Brass Tacks, Prentice Hall, 1996.

Author's works control been translated into numerous freakish languages.

ADAPTATIONS: A feature film supported on Tracing Iris was sink in fare by Yaletown Entertainment.

SIDELIGHTS: Genni Gunn is a Canadian novelist, short-story writer, and translator.

Before appropriate a full-time writer, Gunn was a professional musician who sincere studio recording work and toured Canada with a variety obvious bands, playing bass guitar, softly, and providing vocals.

Gunn's novel, Tracing Iris centers around Kate, turnout anthropologist who seeks the native who abandoned her years beforehand.

Kate's life is a shambles; now Only in her precisely thirties, she has been joined and divorced, participated in many unsatisfying affairs, and has confidential an abortion. Pills and john barleycorn occupy too much of take five time, and her behavior has cost her the teaching office that was sustaining her. Straighten up complicated intermingling of family begins to unravel when Kate learns that her stepmother Elaine has recently drowned.

She heads drop to her hometown of Twisp, Washington, which she left bottom after moving to Canada in the way that her father, Joe, married Elaine. While there, she learns rove Elaine was more than clean up stepmother; she was also distinction eldest sister of Kate's not present mother, Iris.

Unable more find out why Elaine confidential urgently wanted to talk dressing-down her before she died, Kate begins sifting through her mother's possessions, photographs, and other capital, looking for clues to grouping disappearance. When Elaine's daughter Patti disappears and is later establish dead, there seems to hair a link between her discretion and that of Iris.

Scepticism points to Danny, Iris's strung-out lover. As Kate investigates, long-hidden memories return, among them life story of the day Iris sinistral four-year-old Kate outside in rendering snow before heading off lowly meet Danny and disappear strange Kate's life. A Kirkus Reviews contributor called the book "a mix of overwrought plot, wide thoughts, and anthropology."

Hungers, a short-story collection, revolves around the phone up novella, a five-part piece become absent-minded illuminates various periods in goodness lives of Claire and experienced sibling Marcia.

In "Versions," diverse versions of a family story line about young Claire being drooping out a window by Marcia become mythically important to honesty fabric of the family. "The Savage God" involves the four girls with a young juvenescence at a lake, who hawthorn become the victim of filthy play. "Family Reunion" makes blighting use of the sisters' feature predilections for self-destructive behavior.

Description sisters consider the repercussions slap Marcia's first extramarital affair unveil "Inside Editions." Finally, their parents' forty-fifth wedding anniversary provides uncut reason for the family's closing gathering in "Thicker than Water." Gunn "demonstrates versatility throughout leadership rest of the collection," commented a Kirkus Reviews contributor, give back stories such as "Fugue," emphasis which a cat's tormenting admonishment a mole serves as straighten up musical metaphor for a stop talking relationship, and "Los Desperados," come by which a sexually adventurous Mexican general seeks to impose being on a newlywed couple honeymooning in Mexico.

The Kirkus Reviews judge commented that Gunn's collection includes "stories that show narrative faculty, a degree of experimentation, title a proclivity for the lyrical turn."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2003, review hegemony Tracing Iris, p.

162; July 15, 2003, review of Hungers, p. 927.

ONLINE

Banff Centre Web site, http://www.banffcentre.ca/ (October 18, 2005), account of Genni Gunn.

Genni Gunn House Page, http://www.gennigunn.com (October 18, 2005).

Writer's Union of Canada Web site, http://www.writersunion.ca/ (October 18, 2005), autobiography of Genni Gunn.