This article is about the British novelist. For the English actress, see Helen Atkinson-Wood. For the jazz musician, see Helen Jones Woods.
Anna Kavan
Born
Helen Emily Woods (1901-04-10)10 April 1901 Cannes, France
Died
5 December 1968(1968-12-05) (aged 67) London, England
Pen name
Anna Kavan
Helen Ferguson
Occupation
Novelist
short story writer
painter
Notable works
Ice
Spouse
Donald Ferguson
(m. 1919; div. 1928)
Stuart Edmonds
(m. 1931; div. 1938)
Children
2
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a pen name but as her legal identity.
AnnaKavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under...
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horror or comedy. Similarly, Christopher Priest, in his introduction to AnnaKavan's genre-defying but arguably slipstream novel Ice, writes "the best way...
including Ann Quin, Elaine Showalter, Roald Dahl, Anais Nin, E.M. Forster and AnnaKavan. The book was generally well received by critics. Writing for The New...
published by Calder & Boyars in 1964. It was influenced by Virginia Woolf, AnnaKavan and other female British modernists, as well as the French nouveau roman...
Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by ibn Fadlān Ice by AnnaKavan The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson...
as well as novelists and poets Jean Rhys, Eliot Bliss, David Plante, AnnaKavan, and Stevie Smith, just to name a few. In addition to these famous novelists...
(1954–2014), Some Kind of Fairy Tale Alan Judd (born 1946), A Breed of Heroes AnnaKavan (1901–1968), Ice P. J. Kavanagh (1931–2015) Joanna Kavenna (living), The...
Soler and Salvador Dalí, as well as André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette, AnnaKavan, Anaïs Nin, Natsume Sōseki, Yukio Mishima, Gertrude Stein, Hermann Hesse...
Something Happened James Herbert – The Rats Hammond Innes – North Star AnnaKavan – Let Me Alone Stephen King – Carrie Manuel Mujica Láinez El laberinto...
Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter) – Conan James Jones – Go to the Widow-Maker AnnaKavan – Ice Elia Kazan – The Arrangement Thomas Keneally – Bring Larks and Heroes...
Through the Wall "The Lottery" (short story) "Charles" (short story) AnnaKavan – The House of Sleep Patrick Kavanagh – Tarry Flynn Yasunari Kawabata...
Horizon AnnaKavan found Orvil's emotional development to be in advance of his contemporaries, despite some "infantile sadism". Like Davenport, Kavan praised...
Aldous Huxley – Collected Short Stories James Jones – Some Came Running AnnaKavan – Eagle's Nest Jack Kerouac – On the Road Frances Parkinson Keyes – Blue...
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