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Andrew Steinmetz is a Canadian writer, editor and musician.
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He was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1965. [1] Steinmetz formed the band Weather Permitting in 1985. In the 1990s, he was a member of the Montreal alt-country band Good Cookies.
Montreal is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters.
Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.
Steinmetz is the author of five books, including a memoir, Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk (1999), two collections of poetry, and a novel, Eva's Threepenny Theatre, which tells the story of his great-aunt Eva who performed in one of the first touring productions of Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece The Threepenny Opera. His novelistic memoir of his mother, [2] Eva's Threepenny Theatre, won the 2009 City of Ottawa Book Award and was a finalist for the 2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
The Threepenny Opera is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much, if any, Hauptmann might have contributed to the text, Brecht is usually listed as sole author.
The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize is a Canadian literary award presented by Rogers Communications and the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers. Alongside the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and the Giller Prize, it is considered one of the three main awards for Canadian fiction in English.
His book This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla (Biblioasis, 2013), is a biography of his cousin, who escaped Nazi Germany but later had a small role as a Nazi guard in the film The Great Escape . [3] [4] [5] [2] Paryla was a struggling bit-part actor who eventually died in suspicious circumstances back in Germany. [6] It was a finalist for the 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. [7]
Biblioasis is a Canadian independent bookstore and publishing company, based in Windsor, Ontario.
The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough and featuring James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, and Hannes Messemer. It was filmed in Panavision.
The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer.
He is the founding editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press, where he edited works by Christopher Willard, Liam Durcan, Andrew Hood, Jaspreet Singh, David Manicom, Don LePan, Lolette Kuby, Missy Marston, among others. [8]
Christopher Willard is an American-born novelist, critic, short story writer and visual artist.
Liam Durcan is a neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and an Assistant Professor at McGill University. He has published three books, A Short Journey by Car, Garcia's Heart, and The Measure of Darkness. A Winnipeg native, Durcan also lived in Detroit briefly as a child, but has been at the Montreal Neurological Institute since 1994.
Andrew Hood is a Canadian author. He has written two books of short stories, Pardon Our Monsters and The Cloaca. His most recent book, Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What, is a work of nonfiction published as part of 's Bibliophonic Series.
