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Edition 8 (1996) Winner
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Edition 19 (2007) Winner
Eric Koch
エリック・コッホ
Erikku Kocchō
Aliases:
Eric Otto Koch / Otto Koch / Erich Koch
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1919-08-31 （Frankfurt, Germany）
- Died
- 2018-04-28 （Toronto, Ontario, Canada） age 98
- Nationality
- Canada
- Languages
- English, German
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Frankfurt, Germany → Kent, England → Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada → Toronto, Canada
Career
- Occupations
- Author, Broadcaster, Professor
- Active Years
- 1944-2018
- Affiliations
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), York University
- Memberships
- Couchiching Conference (board of directors)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook School | — | Boarding school | — | 1935頃 | United Kingdom |
| St. John's College, Cambridge | — | Economics and Law | 経済学学位 | 1930年代後半-1940 | United Kingdom |
| University of Toronto | — | Law | 法学学位 | 1941-1943 | Canada |
Cranbrook School
Boarding school
Period:
1935頃
Country:
United Kingdom
Sent by family after Nazis took power
St. John's College, Cambridge
Economics and Law
Degree:
経済学学位
Period:
1930年代後半-1940
Year of Graduation:
1941
Country:
United Kingdom
Degree granted in absentia
University of Toronto
Law
Degree:
法学学位
Period:
1941-1943
Year of Graduation:
1943
Country:
Canada
Paid tuition by writing encyclopedia articles
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Yad Vashem Prize for Holocaust Writing | Hilmar and Odette | — | Yad Vashem | Winner |
Yad Vashem Prize for Holocaust Writing
1996
Work:
Hilmar and Odette
Organization:
Yad Vashem
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The French Kiss
1969 Satirical fictionSatirical fantasy about Charles de Gaulle and Quebec
Political satire
Hilmar and Odette
1995 Non-fictionStory of two half-Jewish relatives in Nazi Germany
HolocaustNazi era
Beethoven’s Locket
2018 Historical fictionFinal novel, launched on day of death
Beethoven
Bibliography
- The French Kiss: A Tongue-In-Cheek Political Fantasy (1969)
- The Leisure Riots (1973)
- The Last Thing You'd Want to Know (1976)
- Goodnight, Little Spy (1979)
- Kassandrus (1988)
- C.R.U.P.P.: Two Science Fiction Novels (1990)
- Icon In Love: A Novel About Goethe (1999)
- The Man Who Knew Charlie Chaplin (2000)
- Earrings: Baden-Baden 1885 (2002)
- Premonitions: A novel (2008)
- Arabian nights! 1914: a novel about Kaiser Wilhelm II (2010)
- The Weimar Triangle (2010)
- Beethoven’s Locket (2018)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Varied from satire to historical fiction and SFOften set in recent German history
- Recurring Motifs
- Nazi eraHolocaustWeimar Republic
Legacy
German-born Canadian author, broadcaster, and academic known for novels and non-fiction on Nazi era and German history, winner of Yad Vashem Prize. Died at 98.
Archives
- York University Libraries
Trivia
- Published his first novel at the age of 50.
- Died at 98 on the launch day of his final novel Beethoven’s Locket.
- Interned in Canada as a German-Jewish enemy alien during WWII.