Louise Stern
Louise Stern | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 47–48) California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, artist |
| Education | Gallaudet University Sotheby's Institute of Art (MA) |
| Notable works | Chattering |
| Relatives | Shoshannah Stern (sister) |
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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
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References
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- 1978 births
- Living people
- Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American novelists
- People from Walnut Creek, California
- Deaf artists
- Deaf writers
- Deaf film directors
- Jewish American dramatists and playwrights
- Jewish American novelists
- American women film directors
- 21st-century American women artists
- 21st-century American women novelists
- American deaf people
- Novelists from California
- Film directors from California
- 21st-century American Jews
- American artists with disabilities
- American writers with disabilities