Eleonore Schönmaier

Eleonore Schönmaier is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.

Career

Eleonore Schönmaier is the author of the poetry collections Dust Blown Side of the Journey in 2017, Wavelengths of Your Song in 2013, and Treading Fast Rivers in 1999. Her award winning poems have been published widely in literary magazines in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including Grain, Event, Descant, Prairie Schooner, Magma, and Stand and have been translated into Dutch and German. Her work is widely anthologized, and her poem "Weightless" was published in Best Canadian Poetry.

Schönmaier has taught advanced fiction writing at St. Mary's University and creative writing at Mount St. Vincent University, and has worked as a writing mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Schönmaier has won numerous awards, including the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Award. American, Canadian, Scottish, Dutch and Greek composers have all written music based on Schönmaier's poetry including Michalis Paraskakis,[1] Carmen Braden and Emily Doolittle.[2] The New European Ensemble,[3] has performed her poetry in concert. Born and raised in the Red Lake district of northwestern Ontario, she now divides her time between Atlantic Canada and coastal Europe.

Awards

  • Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist
  • Alfred G. Bailey Award
  • Earle Birney Prize
  • Sheldon Currie Fiction Award
  • Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Finalist Best First Book of Poetry, Canada

Works

  • Passion Fruit Tea Roseway Publishing (1994) ISBN 0-9698407-0-5
  • Treading Fast Rivers McGill-Queen's University Press (1999) ISBN 0-88629-361-8
  • Wavelengths of Your Song McGill-Queen's University Press (2013) ISBN 9780886293611
  • Dust Blown Side of the Journey McGill-Queen's University Press (2017) ISBN 9780773550131

References

  1. ↑ http://michailparaskakis.com/composer.html
  2. ↑ Migrations by Canadian Composer Emily Doolittle based on Schönmaier's poem of the same name
  3. ↑ http://neweuropeanensemble.com/dust-blown-side-of-the-journey.html
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