Anna Kavan (April 10, 1901—1968; born Helen Emily Woods) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ...

Biography

The only child of cold, wealthy parents, the she grew up emotionally rootless, leading to lifelong depression and bouts of mental illness. She married and divorced twice. Her one son, Bryan, died in World War II. Her only daughter, Margaret, died soon after childbirth. An only child is a child with no siblings, either biological or adopted. ... Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Her initial six works were published under the name of Helen Ferguson, her first married name. She eventually named herself after a character in her own novel Let Me Alone. Asylum Piece and all subsequent works were authored as Anna Kavan. Kavan was addicted to heroin for most of her adult life, a dependency which was generally undetected by her associates, and for which she made no apologies. She is popularly supposed to have died of a heroin overdose. In actuality, she died of heart failure, though she had attempted suicide several times during her life. Heroin or diamorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack, black tar, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, diesel, etc. ... For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ... A drug overdose occurs when a chemical substance (i. ...

The first six of her novels gave little indication of the experimental and disturbing nature of her later work. I Am Lazarus, a collection of short stories which explored the inner mindscape of the psychological explorer, heralded the new style and content of Kavan's writing. They were published after she was institutionalized for a heroin-related breakdown and suicide attempt. After her release, Kavan changed her name legally and set about a new career as an avant-garde writer in the mode of Franz Kafka. Her development of "nocturnal language" involved the lexicon of dreams and addiction, mental instability and alienation. She has been compared to Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin, as well as Kafka. (Nin was an admirer and unsuccessfully pursued a correspondence with Kavan.) On one occasion Kavan collaborated with her analyst and close friend, Karl Theodor Bluth, in writing "The Horse's Tale" (1949). Kafka redirects here. ... Djuna Barnes, ca. ... For the American writer, see Virginia Euwer Wolff. ... Ana s Nin (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her self-published diaries, which span a period of forty years, beginning when she was twelve years old. ...

An inveterate traveler, Kavan spent twenty-two months of World War II in New Zealand, and it was that country's proximity to the inhospitable frozen landscape of Antarctica that inspired the writing of Ice. This post-apocalyptic novel brought critical acclaim, earning Kavan the Brian Aldiss Science Fiction Book of the Year award in 1967, the year before Kavan's death in 1968. Many of her works were published posthumously, some edited by her friend, Rhys Davies. London-based Peter Owen Publishers have been long-serving advocates of Kavan's work and continue to keep her work in print. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. ... Rhys Davies (1901-1978) (born Vivian Rees Davies) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer, who wrote in the English language. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Many of her papers, artwork and ephemera are in the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives. The University of Tulsa is a private, comprehensive university awarding bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ...

Influence

David Tibet, the primary creative force behind the experimental music/neofolk music group Current 93 named the Current 93 album, Sleep Has His House after the Anna Kavan book of the name. David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting, 5 March 1960 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... Neofolk is a form of folk music that emerged from European ideals and post-industrial music circles. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Bibliography

As Helen Ferguson

• A Charmed Circle (1929)
• Let Me Alone (1930)
• The Dark Sisters (1930)
• A Stranger Still (1935)
• Goose Cross (1936)
• Rich Get Rich (1937)

As Anna Kavan

• Asylum Piece (1940)
• Change The Name (1941)
• I Am Lazarus (1945)
• The Horse's Tale (with K. T. Bluth) (1949)
• Sleep Has His House (a.k.a. The House of Sleep) (1948)
• A Scarcity of Love (1956)
• Eagle's Nest (1957)
• A Bright Green Field and Other Stories (1958)
• Ice (1967)
• Julia and the Bazooka (1970)
• Who Are You? (1963)
• Let Me Alone (1974)
• My Soul in China (1975)
• My Madness: Selected Writings (1990)
• The Parson (1994)
• Mercury (1995)
• Guilty (2007)

Anthologized work by Anna Kavan

• "Department of Slight Confusion." In Book: A Miscellany. No. 3, edited by Leo Bensemann & Denis Glover. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941.
• "Ice Storm." In New Zealand New Writing, edited by Ian Gordon. Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society, 1942.
• "I Am Lazarus." Horizon VII, no. 41, 1943, 353-61.
• "New Zealand: An Answer to an Inquiry." Horizon VIII, no. 45, 1943, 153-61.
• "The Big Bang." In Modern Short Stories, edited by Denys Val Baker. London: Staples & Staples, 1943.
• "Face of My People." Horizon IX, no. 53, 1944, 323-35.
• "Face of My People." In Little Reviews Anthology 1945, edited by Denys Val Baker. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.
• "I Am Lazarus." In Stories of the Forties Vol. 1, edited by Reginald Moore & Woodrow Wyatt. London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945.
• "Two New Zealand Pieces." In Choice, edited by William Sansom. London: Progressive Publishing, 1946.
• "Brave New Worlds." In Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. London, 1946.
• "The Professor." In Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. London, 1946.
• "Face of My People." In Modern British Writing, edited by Denys Val Baker. New York: Vanguard Press, 1947.
• "I Am Lazarus." In The World Within: Fiction Illuminating Neuroses of Our Time, edited by Mary Louise W. Aswell. New York: McGraw-Hill Books, 1947.
• "The Red Dogs." In Penguin New Writing, Vol. 37, edited by John Lehmann. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.
• "The Red Dogs." In Pleasures of New Writing: An Anthology of Poems, Stories, and Other Prose Pieces from the Pages of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann. London: John Lehmann, 1952.
• "Happy Name." In London Magazine, edited by Alan Ross. London, 1954.
• "Palace of Sleep." In Stories for the Dead of Night, edited by Don Congdon. New York: Dell Books, 1957
• "A Bright Green Field." In Springtime Two: An Anthology of Current Trends, edited by Peter Owen & Wendy Owen. London: Peter Owen Ltd., 1958.
• "High in the Mountains." In London Magazine, edited by Alan Ross. London, 1958.
• "Five More Days to Countdown." In Encounter XXXI, no. 1, 1968, 45-49.
• "Julia and the Bazooka." In Encounter XXXII, no. 2, 1969, 16-19.
• "World of Heroes." In Encounter XXXIII, no. 4, 1969, 9-13.
• "The Mercedes." In London Magazine 1970, 17-21.
• "Edge of Panic." In Vogue, October 1 1971, 75-83.
• "Sleep Has His House" excerpts. In The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams. Foreword by Anthony Stevens. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1996
• "The Zebra Struck" In The Vintage Book of Amnesia, edited by Jonathan Lethem. New York: Vintage Books, 2000

External links

• Anna Kavan Website - Created by Jan Hanford
• Full Bibliography
• Times Literary Supplement "The Thwarted Fiction of Anna Kavan"
• Essay on Kavan in New Zealand - Jennifer Sturm
• University of Tulsa McFarlin Library's inventory of the Anna Kavan collection housed in their special collections department
• Review and rights for Anna Kavan's "Ice"