Simone Weil
Songs of Hunger and Love
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1999
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919897656
- Publish Date
- Oct 1999
- List Price
- $15.00
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
Winnipeg author Sarah Klassen's fifth book of poetry, Simone Wiel: Songs of Hunger and Love, is a poetic treatment of the intriguing and disturbing story of the renowned French thinker and activist Simone Wiel, who died of starvation in 1943 at the age of 34.
About the author
Born in Manitoba’s Interlake, Sarah Klassen learned at an early age to appreciate both birdsong and nature’s silence. An accomplished poet and fiction writer, she has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Journey to Yalta), the High Plains Award for Fiction (A Feast of Longing), the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry (A Curious Beatitude), and the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry. Her work has been nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. The Witternbergs is her first novel. Klassen lives in Winnipeg.