Genni Gunn
Genni Gunn is a Canadian novelist, poet, and translator. Genni Gunn was born in Trieste, Italy, she currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gunn has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia.
Genni Gunn
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- 1949 · Trieste.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- translator · novelist · poet · writer · musician
- Education
- University of British Columbia
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Novels
She is chair of Public Lending Rights, a member of The Writers' Union of Canada and the Literary Translators' Association of Canada and PEN International. Her 2020 short story collection Permanent Tourist was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for short fiction.
• Thrice Upon a Time (1990), • Tracing Iris (2001), • Solitaria (2010),
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Genni Gunn (born 1949) is recorded as a writer, musician and translator.
Short stories
Short stories
• On the Road (1991), • Hungers (2002), • Permanent Tourists (2020)
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Genni Gunn was born in 1949 in Triest.
Short stories in multiple-author anthologies
Poetry
Poetry
• Mating in Captivity (1993), • Faceless (2007), • Accidents (2022) ISBN 978-1-773240-98-5
Translations
Translations
• Devour Me Too, by Dacia Maraini (1987) • Traveling in the Gait of a Fox, by Dacia Maraini (1992) • Text Me, by Corrado Calabrò, 2014
Opera libretto
Opera libretto
• Alternate Visions (2007) (music by John Oliver) Produced by Chants Libres, Montreal.
Travel memoir
Travel memoir
• Tracks: Journeys in Time and Place (2013),
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