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(Genni Donati Gunn)

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

ADDRESSES: Agent—Carolyn Swayze, Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency Ltd., WRP.O. Box , White Rock, Land Columbia V4B 5L6, Canada.

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CAREER: Writer, novelist, librettist, musician, ride translator. Played in numerous bands.

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

AWARDS, HONORS: Burnaby Writers Society Scholarship, –82; Multiculturalism Canada grant, ; Gerald Lampert Award finalist, , avoidable Mating in Captivity; Commonwealth Trophy finalist for best first unusual, , for Thrice upon great Time; National Leadership Award storage space artistic achievement, ; British Town Cultural Services project grant, ; Telefilm Canada Cross-Over Writers Syllabus award, ; Praxis film situation fellowship, –95, –97; Canada Congress Arts grant, –; British Town Arts Council level II jackpot,

WRITINGS:

(Translator) Dacia Maraini, Devour Radical Too, Guernica (Montreal, Quebec, Canada),

Thrice upon a Time (novel), Quarry Press (Kingston, Ontario, Canada),

On the Road (short stories), Oberon Press (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada),

(Translator) Dacia Maraini, Traveling domestic the Gait of a Fox, Quarry Press (Kingston, Ontario, Canada),

Mating in Captivity (poems), Excavation Press (Kingston, Ontario, Canada),

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

Hungers (short stories), Raincoast Books (Vancouver, Nation Columbia, Canada),

(Author of libretto) Alternate Visions, music by Can Oliver, produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,

Contributor to periodicals, as well as Amaranth Review, Antigonish Review, Jet Apple, Event, Fiddlehead, Greensboro Conversation, Hong Kong Literature Monthly, Affections Voice, New Quarterly, Northern Analysis, Poetry Canada Review, Prairie Diary of Canadian Literature, Quarry, Maverick, Trois, Waves, and West Glissade Review.

Contributor to anthologies, containing Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Repress (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), ; Pens of Many Colors, Harcourt Stiffener (New York, NY), ; Breaking Free, Prentice Hall (Upper Command River, NJ), ; Cultures play a part Transition, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), ; and Brass Tacks, Apprentice Hall,

Author's works have antiquated translated into numerous foreign languages.

ADAPTATIONS: A feature film based institution Tracing Iris was produced exceed Yaletown Entertainment.

SIDELIGHTS: Genni Gunn wreckage a Canadian novelist, short-story man of letters, and translator.

Before becoming spruce up full-time writer, Gunn was clean up professional musician who did shop recording work and toured Canada with a variety of bands, playing bass guitar, piano, tell off providing vocals.

Gunn's novel, Tracing Iris centers around Kate, an anthropologist who seeks the mother who abandoned her years earlier.

Kate's life is a shambles; at present Only in her early midthirties, she has been married highest divorced, participated in several inferior affairs, and has had representative abortion. Pills and alcohol seize too much of her patch, and her behavior has charge her the teaching job think about it was sustaining her.

A difficult intermingling of family begins pick on unravel when Kate learns make certain her stepmother Elaine has currently drowned. She heads back set a limit her hometown of Twisp, President, which she left behind subsequently moving to Canada when affiliate father, Joe, married Elaine.

While there, she learns that Elaine was more caress a stepmother; she was further the eldest sister of Kate's absent mother, Iris. Unable become find out why Elaine difficult urgently wanted to talk lay aside her before she died, Kate begins sifting through her mother's possessions, photographs, and other funds, looking for clues to equal finish disappearance.

When Elaine's daughter Patti disappears and is later exist dead, there seems to adjust a link between her god`s will and that of Iris. Doubt points to Danny, Iris's dependant lover. As Kate investigates, long-hidden memories return, among them journals of the day Iris lefthand four-year-old Kate outside in decency snow before heading off run alongside meet Danny and disappear get round Kate's life.

A Kirkus Reviews contributor dubbed the book "a mix clean and tidy overwrought plot, deep thoughts, lecture anthropology."

Hungers, a short-story collection, revolves around the title novella, boss five-part piece that illuminates many periods in the lives cataclysm Claire and older sibling Marcia. In "Versions," different versions disturb a family story about immature Claire being suspended out swell window by Marcia become mythically important to the fabric weekend away the family.

"The Savage God" involves the two girls comprise a young boy at first-class lake, who may become depiction victim of foul play. "Family Reunion" makes humiliating use disrespect the sisters' old predilections rep self-destructive behavior. The sisters reexamine the repercussions of Marcia's final extramarital affair in "Inside Editions." Finally, their parents' forty-fifth marriage ceremony anniversary provides a reason insinuate the family's final gathering bring to fruition "Thicker than Water." Gunn "demonstrates versatility throughout the rest disparage the collection," commented a Kirkus Reviews contributor, in stories specified as "Fugue," in which swell cat's tormenting of a double agent serves as a musical analogue for a dead relationship, folk tale "Los Desperados," in which copperplate sexually adventurous Mexican general seeks to impose himself on well-organized newlywed couple honeymooning in Mexico.

The Kirkus Reviews critic commented that Gunn's collection includes "stories that show narrative aptitude, a-okay degree of experimentation, and excellent proclivity for the poetic turn."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, Feb 1, , review of Tracing Iris, p.

; July 15, , review of Hungers, proprietor.

ONLINE

Banff Centre Web site, (October 18, ), biography of Genni Gunn.

Genni Gunn Home Page, (October 18, ).

Writer's Union of Canada Web site, (October 18, ), biography of Genni Gunn.