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Louise Stern (born 1978) is an American writer and artist, and works around ideas of language, communication and isolation.[1]

Stern grew up in an exclusively deaf community and is fourth-generation deaf on her father's side, and third-generation deaf on her mother's side. She attended California School for the Deaf, Fremont.[2]

Literature

Her first collection of short stories, Chattering, was published by Granta in 2011. Alan Warner called it "an amazing debut: vibrantly perceptive, gentle, funny and profound".[2]

Her first novel, Ismael and His Sisters, was written and set in a deaf village in the Yucatán Peninsula, where Stern communicated in Mayan Sign Language.[3][4] There will be an accompanying book of photographs to it.[5]

She has also written plays, including The Ugly Birds and The Interpreter, which was performed at the Bush Theatre.[4][5][6] Stern was commissioned to write stories for BBC Radio 4 in 2012 and 2013.[7][8]

Visual art

Stern studied at Gallaudet University, where she was the only student studying art history.[9] She moved to the United Kingdom in 2002 where she gained a Master of Arts from Sotheby's Institute of Art and worked as an assistant to Sam Taylor-Wood.

Her own artwork has been exhibited in galleries in Geneva, Barcelona, Madrid, London, and Port Eliot.[2] She is the founder and publisher of Maurice, a contemporary art magazine for children.[10]

Film

She directed a film, Celan, based on the poetry of Paul Celan. The first screening had live spoken accompaniment by Polly Frame.[11] The premiere screening of Celan and accompanying live performance took place at a PoetryFilm Equinox event curated by Zata Kitowski.

In 1999, she acted with her sister Shoshannah in the film The Auteur Theory.[12]

She is the subject of the film Louisa in Majahua.[13]

Books

  • Chattering, Granta Books, 2011. ISBN 1847081770
  • Ismael and His Sisters, Granta Books, 2015 ISBN 9781847089458

References

  1. ^ "Louise Stern". Kindle Project. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c O'Kelly, Lisa (May 30, 2010). "Louise Stern: 'I didn't think I would ever live in the hearing world, let alone write in it'". The Observer. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  3. ^ "Ismael and His Sisters". Granta. Granta. Archived from the original on May 16, 2015. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  4. ^ a b England, Juliet. "A catch-up with author Louise Stern". Hearing Times. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Deaf writer shines at RADAR festival". Hearing Times. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  6. ^ Gray, Freddy (May 14, 2011). "The chattering classes". The Spectator. No. May 14, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  7. ^ "The Electric Box". BBC. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  8. ^ "Latido". BBC. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  9. ^ Sedition Art: Louise Stern
  10. ^ "LOUISE STERN". Granta. Granta. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  11. ^ "Programme: PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation". PoetryFilm. September 24, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  12. ^ "The Auteur Theory". imdb. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  13. ^ "Louisa in Majahua". Steven M Fisher. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
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