Katherine Ashenburg is a Canadian writer best known for her 2018 debut novel Sofie & Cecilia.
Katherine Ashenburg | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Known for | debuting a novel at 73 |
Career
editAshenburg began her career as a CBC Radio producer, eventually becoming an editor at The Globe and Mail newspaper.[1]
In 1996 Ashenburg published her first book, Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario. She would follow that with two more works of non-fiction: The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die, which she wrote after her son-in-law died in 1998 and The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History.[2]
Ashenberg released her debut novel Sofie & Cecilia a few months shy of her 73rd birthday.[3] The novel was inspired by a trip she took to Sweden to visit her daughter, where she became fascinated by the life of artist Carl Larsson and his wife Karin Bergöö Larsson. Ashenburg originally told Bergöö Larsson's story to her friend author Jane Urquhart, hoping that she would turn it into a novel, but Urquhart instead suggested Ashenberg write the story herself.[4]
Selected works
edit- Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario (1996)
- The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die (2002)
- The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (2008)
- Sofie & Cecilia (2018)
References
edit- ^ Ashenburg, Katherine. "Writer and Editor Katherine Ashenburg Talks Pursuing Her Dreams at 72". Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- ^ "THE MOURNER'S DANCE: What We Do When People Die". Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- ^ Ashenburg, Katherine. "I published my first novel in my 70s — and I'm in good company". Toronto Star. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- ^ Ashenburg, Katherine. "How a trip to Sweden inspired long-time nonfiction author Katherine Ashenburg to write her first novel". Retrieved 30 October 2018.