Genni gunn biography template
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Gunn, Genni
Genni Gunn was born Genni Donati in Trieste, Italy and moved to Canada in 1960 at 11-years-old. Having already started school in Italy, she grew up in Vancouver and studied at the University of British Columbia where she earned a B.F.A. (1982) and an M.F.A. (1984).
Before becoming a full-time writer, Gunn was a professional musician who did studio recording work and toured Canada with a variety of bands, playing bass guitar, piano and providing vocals.
Her published books include three novels -- Solitaria (nominated for the Giller Prize), Tracing Iris (adapted to film, The Riverbank), and Thrice Upon a Time (finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize); three short story collections -- Permanent Tourists, Hungers, and On the Road; two poetry collections—Faceless and Mating in Captivity (finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award), and a collection of personal essays, TRACKS: Journeys in Time and Place.
She is a contributor to numerous journals and magazines, including Am
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Young lovers, war’s chaos
The Cipher
by Genni Gunn
Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2024
$22.95 / 9781773241425
Reviewed by Theo Dombrowski
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“Ah, love, let us be true to one another,“ writes Matthew Arnold in his haunting poem,“Dover Beach.” His plea is urgent because the entire world, he grieves, is but “a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
From the ancient Greeks to modern times some of our most affecting writing has been about the yearning for love in a world riven by the “ignorant armies” of war. Works as diverse as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, and, more recently, The Sorrow of War by Vietnamese novelist Bao Ninh are just a few that make art from this human tragedy.
In The Cipher, Vancouver writer Genni Gunn, like so many before her, writes of love battered by war. Given the nature of war, many of the conflicts in her story
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