Norman Levine
Albert Norman Levine (October 22, 1923 – June 14, 2005) was a
Francis Bacon, his written expression was not abstract, but concrete. "The leaner the language the more suggestive," he wrote in his 1993 essay, Sometimes It Works.[1]
Life and career
Norman Levine was born on October 22, 1923, in Minsk, Poland, but spent most of his adult life in England.
His Jewish family had fled from
Lancaster bomber pilot for the Canadian division of the Royal Air Force. He was based at Leeming
.
Post-war he met an Englishwoman, Margaret, settled down and had three children. His writing, a reflection of his life, was also a direct influence on that life, as he had little money to keep up rent payments; as a result his family often moved.
After England he lived, for a time, in Canada, with his second wife. He also lived in France before finally returning to England, where he died ten years later.
In 2002 he was presented with the
Matt Cohen Prize (established in 2001 by the Writers' Trust of Canada
to recognize a lifetime of work by a Canadian writer).
Bibliography
Short stories
- One Way Ticket (1961)
- I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well (1971) (translated into German by Annemarie Böll as"Ein kleines Stückchen Blau")
- Thin Ice (1979)
- Why Do You Live So Far Away? (1984) (translated into German by Annemarie Böll as "Der Spielplatz")
- Champagne Barn (1984)
- The Beat and the Still (1990)
- Something Happened Here (1991)
- The Ability to Forget (2003)
Novels
- The Angled Road (1952)
- From a Seaside Town (1970)
Poetry
- Myssium (1948)
- The Tight-rope Walker (1950)
- I Walk by the Harbour (1976)
Non-fiction
- Canada Made Me (1958)
- "Sometimes It Works" (in How Stories Mean, edited by John Metcalf and J.R. Struthers) (1993)
Editor
- Canadian Winter's Tales (1968)
References
- ^ a b Oldham, A. (2005, July 1). "Norman Levine: Novelist with painter’s perception". The Guardian.
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