- Charlotte Fielden
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Charlotte Fielden (born June 5, 1932) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, actress and poet. She is a retired therapist.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Fielden studied mime with Marcel Marceau in the 1950s, and was featured in the Stratford Festival of Canada with actors such as William Shatner. She has written for stage, television, radio, and film, and her short stories, articles and poetry have been included in various anthologies, literary reviews and news publications. She provided the English dubbed versions for Claude Jutra's films Mon Oncle Antoine and Kamouraska.
An Age Without A Name, released in the fall of 2007, concludes the Weil Trilogy. Preceded by Crying As She Ran, and Messages Like Memories, it spans 100 years of a Toronto immigrant family from 1920 to 2020. A Fragrance of Thyme, her first poetry collection, was released in June 2008, and her first mystery novel, The Wolves of Positano had a July 2010 release.
Fielden's published play in two acts, Saving Angel had successful staged readings in Toronto (August 2006) and in London, England at the Actors Centre (2006). Fielden is also working with composer Ian McAndrew on their musical Storyville.
Fielden's tenth book and second poetry collection, Beads on a Fragile String had a February 2011 release. She is currently working on the sequel to The Wolves of Positano.
She is a founding member of both the Writers' Union of Canada and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
She is the mother of musician Jerry Fielden, guitarist of the Canadian Metal band AraPacis, who is also her editor.
Bibliography
- Crying As She Ran - Macmillan of Canada, 1970
- One Crowded Hour - Playwrights' Co-op, 1976 (First Prize, the Women's National Playwriting Competition)
- Palatine Hill - CFM Books, 2004
- Messages Like Memories - CFM Books, 2005
- A Thin Place - CFM Books, 2006
- Saving Angel, a play - CFM Books, 2007
- An Age Without a Name - CFM Books, 2007
- Fragrance of Thyme - CFM Books, 2008
- The Wolves of Positano - CFM Books, 2010
- Beads on a Fragile String - CFM Books, 2011
External links
Categories:- 1932 births
- Living people
- Canadian writer stubs
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