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Bibliography
Reading Kavan from time to time, in English and/or in French.
- Let Me Alone, Jonathan Cape, London, 1930 / Laissez-moi ma solitude, 10/18, Paris, 1983
- A Stranger Still, Peter Owen, London, 1935
- Asylum piece, Jonathan Cape, London, 1940 / Une Représentation à l'asile, Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1983
- «New-Zealand: Answer To An Inquiry», Horizon, septembre 1943, p. 153–162
- «The Case of Bill Williams», Horizon, février 1944, p. 96–99
- «The Professor», Horizon, mars 1946, p. 169–174
- «Brave New Worlds», Horizon, 1946
- Sleep Has His House, Cassel, London, 1948 / Demeure du sommeil, Henri Veyrier, Paris, 1977
- The Horse's Tale, Gaberboccus Press, London, 1949
- A Scarcity of Love, Peter Owen, London, 1956 / Neige, suivi de Mal Aimées, Stock, Paris, 1975
- A Bright Green Field and other stories, Peter Owen, London, 1958
- Who Are You ?, Peter Owen, London, 1963 /L'oiseau qui es-tu ?, Henri Veyrier, Paris, 1979
- Ice, Norton, New York, 1967 / Neige, suivi de Mal Aimées, Stock, Paris, 1975
- Julia and the Bazooka, Peter Owen, London, 1970 / Julia et son bazooka, Complexe, Bruxelles, 1992
- «Edge of Panic», Vogue, octobre 1971, p. 75–83
- My Soul in China, Peter Owen, London, 1975 /Mon Âme en Chine, Flammarion, Paris, 1992
- Mercury, Peter Owen, London, 1994
- The Cactus Sign (unpublished manuscript), Anna Kavan Special Collection, McFarlin Library University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Five Months Further: What I Remember about New-Zealand (unpublished manuscript), Anna Kavan Special Collection, McFarlin Library University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Biographies
Among all the biographers who bended over Kavan, here are the three who completed their works.
- Callard David, The Case of Anna Kavan: A biography, Peter Owen, 1992
- Reed Jeremy, A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan, Peter Owen, 2006
- Sturm Jennifer, Anna Kavan's New Zealand: A Pacific Interlude in a Turbulent Life, Random House New Zealand, 2009
Archives
List of visited places. More papers, paintings and letters dispersed in other parts of the world… to be found in Germany (see Karl Theodor Bluth Papers), New-Zealand (see Ian Hamilton Papers), etc.
- Centing Richard collection, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collection, University of Tulsa Oklahoma;
- Davies Rhys Papers, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth;
- Kavan Anna paintings, Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum, London;
- Kavan Anna Papers, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collection, University of Tulsa Oklahoma;
- Knopf Alfred, Harry Ransom Research Center, Austin Texas;
- Owen Peter Papers, Harry Ransom Research Center, Austin Texas.
Other sources
Reviews, essays & thesis published on Kavan's works & life since 2000.
- Berger Michel, Introducing Anna Kavan, The Rumpus, 2011
- Bradley Jane, Literary Heroines to Love : Anna Kavan, 2008
- Duchamp L. Timmel, What's the Story? Reading Anna Kavan's Ice, LCRW14, 2004
- Fallowel Duncan, Outside the asylum of her mind, The Telegraph, 2006
- Freeman Hannah, Winter reads: Ice by Anna Kavan, The Guardian, 2011
- Hill Emily, Kafka's sister, Dazed & Confused, 2010
- Hill Emily, Novel Approach, Dazed & Confused, 2011
- Ironside Virginia, Heroin, madness and men: a hell of a life, The Independent, 2001
- Lessing Doris, A Stranger on Earth, The Independant, 2006
- Lessing Doris, Times Bites, Harper Press, 2004
- McKenzie Wark, Compose Yourself!, Public Seminar, 2014
- Mill Sam, Literary Luminaries: Gender and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part I, 2014
- Mill Sam, Literary Luminaries: Gender and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part II, 2014
- Mounic Anne, Psyché et le secret de Perséphone — Prose en métamorphose, mémoire et création, Katherine Mansfield, Catherine Pozzi, Anna Kavan, Djuna Barnes, éditions L'Harmattan, 2004
- Pagetti Carlo, Ending in snow and ice, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2010
- Perriam Geraldine,“Impudent Scribblers”: Place and the unlikely heroines of the interwar years, University of Glasgow, 2011
- Perriam Geraldine, Gender, Medical Authority and Location in Fiction by Women, paper presented during the Attentive Writers: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority conference, Glasgow, 2013
- Peyrache-Leborgne Dominique « La Littérature onirique contemporaine : fragments d’autofictions ? (Michel Leiris, Marguerite Yourcenar, Elsa Morante, Anna Kavan, Unica Zürn et Georges Perec) » Les Romans du Je, textes réunis par Ph. Forest et Cl. Gaugain, Nantes, Editions Pleins Feux, 2001
- Reid Robin Ann, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Press, 2009
- Rourke Lee, Found Guilty: Anna Kavan's latest novel, The Guardian, 2007
- Stephenson Gregory, An Inward Ice-Age : A reading of Anna Kavan's Ice, Foundation, n°115, 2011
- Sturm Jennifer, Anna Kavan Meets a New Zealand Writer on His Special Day, Kōtare 5, n°1, pp. 36–39, 2004
- Walker Victoria, The Fiction of Anna Kavan (1901-1968), Phd Queen Mary, University of London, 2012
- Walker Victoria, Ornithology and Ontology : The Existential Birdcall in Jean Rhy's Wide Sargasso Sea and Anna Kavan's Who Are you ?, Women: a cultural review, Taylor&Francis, 2012
- Wells Peter, Uncovering a real gem, New-Zealand, Herald News, 2009
- Wilson JM, Anna Kavan and the New Zealand Connexion, paper presented during Anna Kavan Symposium, 2014
- Woodfin Barbara, Experimental and semi-autobiographical novels of the 1930s and 40s (Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Anna Kavan), University of Tulsa, 2011
- Zambreno Kate, Anna Kavan, Context n°18, Dalkey Archives Press, 2010
- Zambreno Kate, Heroines, Semiotext(e), MIT Press, 2012
Online findings
Remix, web-folkore, artworks inspired by Kavan's life & writings completed by various "homage" medias, resources websites and fan blogs.
- Anna, art installation by Heather & Ivan Morison Heather presented at Hepworth Wakefield, 2012
- Anna Kavan by Jennifer Sturm : conversation with New-Zealand iconic people, video interview, 2009
- Anna Kavan in RD Dent's library, video, 2012
- Anna Kavan Life & Books, website dedicated to Kavan created by Jan Hanford
- Anna Kavan Society, based in London and founded by Victoria Walker, 2010
- Anxiety cut-up, Burroughs-style cut-up with an existential excerpt from personal diary and a selection from Ice by Erin K. Drew, 2012
- Hello My Name Is Anna Kavan, 3D animated film by Matthew Weinstein (in process)
- House of Sleep, tumblr dedicated to Kavan created by Nate Door, 2013
- Ice, Kavan's novel adapted for theater Cie François Verret (2007)
- Kavan, song dedicated to Anna Kavan by the us band Carta, in The Glass Bottom Boat album, 2007
- Lady Ice, sound art creation by Floriane Pochon presented during Nuits de la Phaune festival, 2007
- Silverglass, performance based on Rhys Davies & Anna Kavan's friendship, created by D. J. Britton and first performed on a friday 13th at Taliesin Art Center at the occasion of the Rhys Davies Short Story Conference, 2013
- Sleep Asylum, album named after Kavan's novels from the band Uzi, 1986
- Sleep Has His House, album named after Kavan's novel, by David Tibet from the band Current 93, 2000
- Who Are You? Anna Kavan edit-a-thon, Wikipedia editing workshop to expand Anna Kavan's wikipedia pages collaboratively, associated event to Anna Kavan Symposium, 2014
Meetings
Series of interviews conducted mostly in cafés but also in a book fair, in a museum, in offices, in a restaurant, in a park, in an artist studio and at home(s).
- Lola Robles, Madrid, April 2013
- Antonia Owen, London, April 2013
- Brian Aldiss, Oxford, April 2013
- Colin Gale, London, April 2013
- Victoria Walker, London, April 2013
- Bruce Hunter, London, April 2013
- Virginia Ironside, London, April 2013
- Emily Hill, London, April 2013
- Nina Allen, London, April 2013
- Meic Stephens, Cardiff, April 2013
- Nate Dorr, New York, June 2013
- Matthew Weinstein, New York, June 2013
- Barbara Woodfin, Tulsa, July 2013
- Melanie Westenberg, Austin, July 2013
Peripheral readings
Intertextuality somewhere in between auto/biographical narratives, essays on literature and net-culture, women writings & genre-bending fiction.
- Acker Kathy, Don Quixote, Laurence Viallet, 2013
- Amat Nuria, Nous sommes tous Kafka, Allia, 2008
- Barnes Djuna, Bois de la nuit, Seuil, 2014
- Bon François, Proust est une fiction, Seuil, 2013
- Burroughs William, Interzone, Christian Bourgois, 2009
- Calvino Italo, Si par une nuit d'hiver un voyageur, Éditions du Seuil, 1981
- Cardon Dominique, À quoi rêvent les algorithmes, Éditions du Seuil & La République des idées, 2015
- Carrere Emmanuel, Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts, Seuil, 1999
- Charyn Jerome, La vie secrète d'Emily Dickinson, Payot & Rivages, 2013
- Deleuze & Guattari, Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure, Éditions de minuit, 1975
- Duras Marguerite, Hiroshima mon amour, Gallimard, 1960
- Federman Raymond, Surfiction, Le mot et le reste, 2006
- Hayles Katherine, Writing Machine, MIT Press, 2002
- Huston Nancy, L'espèce fabulatrice, Actes Sud, 2008
- Kafka Franz, Amerika, Flammarion, 1988
- Laumonier Alexandre, 6, Zones Sensibles, 2013
- Limongi Laure, Fonction Elvis, Leo Scheer, 2006
- Martel Frédéric, Enquète sur les internets, Stock, 2014
- Martinez Cyrille, Deux jeunes artistes au chômage, Buchet Chastel, 2011
- Mavridorakis Valérie, Art et science-fiction – La Ballard Connection (ouvrage collectif), MAMCO 2011
- Nin Anaïs, Le roman de l'avenir, Stock, 1973
- Notéris Émilie, J. G. Ballard, Hautes altitudes (ouvrage collectif), éditions ère, 2008
- Ponge Francis, La rage de l'expression, Gallimard, 1976
- Queneau Raymond, Chêne et chien, Gallimard, 1969
- Quintane Nathalie, Les années 10, La Fabrique, 2014
- Rhys Jean, La prisonnière des Sargasses, Gallimard, 1995
- Robbe-Grillet, La jalousie, Editions de Minuit, 1957
- Rohe Olivier, Nous autres, Naïve, 2005
- Stein Gertrude, Autobiographie d’Alice Toklas, Gallimard, 1980
- Vonnegut Kurt, Le berceau du chat, Points, 2010
- Woolf Virginia, L'art du roman, 10/18, ré-édition 2001
- Yaguello Marina, Alice au pays du langage, Seuil, 1981