# Anna Kavan
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anna kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name anna kavan in 1939, not only as a nom de plume but as her legal identity.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
anna kavan was born Helen Emily Woods in Cannes, South of France, the only child of a wealthy British family.
162 - Ice
First book for December's prompt to read a book by an author who shares your surname or first initial of your surname is Ice by Anna Kavan. This is a sci-fi or slipstream novel about a man searching for a girl in a world that is slowly being consumed by ice.
Content warning: sexual assault, viole…
Ice by Anna Kavan
Really proud of how this one came out. Ice is an incredibly slippery novel to try to pin down. The book teeters back and forth between dark anti-romance, bleak rumination on a dying world, and on one occasion, a James Bond parody(?) The story itself is unsteady about its facts and chronology, emplo…
Face of My People by Anna Kavan
In Anna Kavan's haunting short story "The Face of My People," we encounter Kling, a man adrift in a world he no longer recognizes. Confined to a psychiatric ward in a foreign land, Kling grapples with a past too painful to articulate and a present that seems to reject his very existence. As the sta…
#136 Hell freezes over: Ice (1967) by Anna Kavan
Dramatic climate breakdown is causing extremes of weather never seen before, and contributing to a succession of convulsive wars, with no end in sight. This isn't the 21st century - it's a unique entry in the tradition of the British catastrophe novel. Ice was written by Anna Kavan and published in…
Ice by Anna Kavan (Book Review)
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The Experimental Fiction of Anna Kavan with Victoria Walker
Victoria Walker researches twentieth-century British women’s prose fiction, especially experimental writing. She has published widely on Anna Kavan and edited a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review – ‘Anna Kavan: New Readings’ (Winter 2017-18), a collection of Kavan’s short writing, Machines i…
Nicholas Royle on writing about his love for second hand books and bookshops (archive re-release)
Let’s dust off the archives again and celebrate some of the guests we’ve had on the Rippling Pages
This time, we’re going back to a conversation that was had in 2022 with the writer, editor, and all around bookish good guy, Nicholas Royle.
I spoke to Nicholas about his wonderful book about book c…
Ice by Anna Kavan
This episode I cover Anna Kavan’s Ice, her last novel from 1967. A work of “slipstream fiction” with an unreliable narrator who pursues a woman over an hallucinatory landscape. I discuss the conventional and storygame opportunities, avatar-based gaming (via Dramasystem and Amazing Engine), and a no…
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