Sarah Klassen

Sarah Klassen (born 1932) is a Canadian writer living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1][2] Klassen's first volume of poetry, Journey to Yalta, was awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klassen is the recipient of Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry[3] and Klassen's novel, The Wittenbergs, was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Award for popular history.[4]

Career

Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides there.[1] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Winnipeg. Sarah Klassen taught English in the public school system in Winnipeg, and at summer institutes in Lithuania and Ukraine.[1] Klassen has been recognized as part of a flourishing of Mennonite novelists and poets emerging in the 1980s.[5] Much of Klassen's writing reflects creatively on the experiences and locations of Russian Mennonite settlements in the early part of the twentieth century, a topic relayed to her in stories by her own mother.[1]

Bibliography

Novels
  • The Wittenbergs, Winnipeg: Turnstone Press (2013)
  • The Russian Daughter Winnipeg: CMU Press (2022)

Poetry
  • Journey to Yalta Winnipeg: Turnstone Press (1988)
  • Violence and Mercy Windsor: Netherlandic Press (1991)
  • Borderwatch Windsor: Netherlandic Press (1993)
  • Dangerous Elements Kingston: Quarry Press (1998)
  • Simone Weil: Songs for Hunger and Love Hamilton: Wolsak and Wynn (1999)
  • A Curious Beatitude Winnipeg: The Muses' Company (2006)
  • Monstrance Winnipeg: Turnstone Press (2012)
  • Tree of Life Winnipeg: Turnstone Press (2020)

Short stories
  • The Peony Season Winnipeg: Turnstone Press (2000)
  • A Feast of Longing Regina, SK: Coteau Books (2007)

Awards
  • Giessener Elektronische Bibliothek: Julia Michael, Narrating communities: constructing and challenging Mennonite Canadian identities through narrative, thesis Universität Gießen 2017, therein Demythologizing Stories of Martyrdom as Narratives of Victimization in Sarah Klassen's "Dangerous Elements", pp 59 – 73

References
  1. Gordon, Ariel (14 January 2023). "In Conversation with Sarah Klassen: Nonagenarian Manitoba writer's historical novel owes a debt to her mother, time spent teaching in Ukraine". Winnipeg Free Press. pp. F3.
  2. Hostetler, Ann Elizabeth (2003). A cappella: Mennonite voices in poetry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-87745-874-X. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  3. Unrau-Poetker, Emily (13 October 2020). "Sarah Klassen — 'The Tree of Life'". The Manitoban. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  4. "MHS Resources: Margaret McWilliams Award Winners". The Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  5. Redekop, Magdalene (2020). Making Believe: Questions About Mennonites and Art. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. pp. 5, 178–9. ISBN 978-0-88755-857-3.


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