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<Klothild de Baar • Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Katharina Cäcilia Lyon-Villiger (22 November 1946 - ), known by her pen name Klothild de Baar, is a prolific Canadian author, Canadian Government officer and economist, with a specialty in petrodollar circulation via international foreign aid projects. Born in Switzerland , Lyon-Villiger graduated from Kaufmännische Berufsschule Zug in Canada, a Maîtrise ès sciences from the Université du Québec, and an M.B.A and Ph.D from Califormia Western University in the USA in 1983. Returning to Canada, she re-joined the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Canada, where she wrote policy, attended international and UN-IMF-World Bank conferences and managed international development projects all around the world for the major part of her government career. She began to publish children’s books in 1982. Over the decades in government, there followed some 91 books, including translations into French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, Swedish, and Turkish. Her saga Sentinel of the Damned (finalist for the Book Excellence Awards) and her novel I Bow to Thee My Country were her longest works, as discussed in a radio interview with CKCU in the Capital of Canada. Her book Letters to Kathy – A Series of Notes and Love Letters by James Traill Lyon, was runner-up for the Fred Kerner Prize 2016 of the Canadian Authors Association . Lyon-Villiger’s special talent is the way she makes the landscape part of the stories, according to Edie B, CKCU host of the show “Literary Landscape” in an interview on Thursday January 24th, 2019. Life [edit source] Katharina Cäcilia Lyon-Villiger, who was called "Käti" for short, was born on Friday, November 22, 1946, in her ancestral hamlet of Egg, Alikon b. Sins in the Freiamt region of the Canton of Aargau in Nothern Switzerland, some forty kilometers from the original castle of the Habsburg Dynasty and Horben Castle , which is featured in her major works. She grew up very happily in her ancestral home on Mount Lindenberg, built in the 17th century. She lived there, with her six siblings, until she moved to Canada soon after graduation from College, at the age of nineteen, to begin a banking career and to pursue her academic studies. She is well known in the Outaouais-Quebec region for having taken fourteen years to re-build a dilapidated old folly of a replica of Neuschwanstein in Perkins, Quebec, and turning it into the ill-fated Horben Castle Canada . Lyon-Villiger attended Alikon Primary School and High School at Bezirksschule Sins , followed by a finishing year at a Girls’ School, Le pensionnat St-Louis in Orange, Department of Vaucluse, in the South of France. After graduating from College back in Switzerland, she left for Canada, at the behest of a Canadian girlfriend, to further her professional qualifications and academic studies, including a short stay in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She met her first husband, James Traill Lyon, QC, shortly thereafter while riding and training for a concours hippique in Montreal, and they were married in Switzerland in 1971. She married her second husband, barrister and author Peter Sorokan, QC, in 1986. They live in a uniquely traditional home in the Capital of Canada, Ottawa, and she enjoys writing there and in their Victorian lakeside cottage on Chauncey Lake, Quebec.

Career as an author [edit source] Lyon-Villiger began writing when her grandmother gave her a gold-cut, leather-bound diary at Christmas 1958, when she was twelve. She wrote into it almost daily for many years into adulthood. She composed her first poem in Switzerland as a schoolchild and wrote her first series of poems in High School, notably a lament upon having to leave her home, her riding horse, Fanny, her barsoi, Cyrus, and her walks and rides in the woods of her beloved Freiamt County. She submitted her first short story, "Le grand ballet," for publication in Montreal when she was not yet twenty years old. Lyon-Villiger contributed articles to all her school newspapers on a regular basis. She published her first series of fairytales for children, Wonderland Stories, in 1982, and her first novel, Sentinel of the Damned, in 2000, which she co-translated into German, French, and Spanish. Recognition [edit source] The Canadian Authors Association (National Capital Region chapter) recognized Kati Lyon-Villiger in 2024: The Rahel Poems is a diverse assortment and mixture of poems, ranging from the horrors of wars to the glory of love, and from the whimsical to the poignant Femmes remarquables Ottawa Distinguished Women installed Lyon-Villiger as one of its « Women of Inspiration » . The Canadian Federation of University Women designated Lyon-Villiger as one of its Notable Women The Council of Swiss Abroad/ASO showcased Lyon-Villliger in a worldwide portrait Written works [edit source] 1.WONDERLAND STORIES: - Atomland (1982 & 2017) 2. - Waterland (1982 & 2017) 3. - Moneyland (1982 & 2017) 4. - Phoneland (1982 & 2017) 5.Sentinel of the Damned (2000/2017/2019/2020) (Finalist for the Book Excellence Awards) 6.’Der Wächter des Verdammten’’ (2021) 7.”Centinela del condenado” –Spanish version (2022) 8.“Sentinelle du condamné” —French version (2023) 9.”I Bow to Thee, My Country (2005) 10.‘’Me inclino ante ti, Mi país’’ —Spanish version (2021) 11.‘’Ich verneige mich for Dir, mein Land’’—German version (2021) 12.‘’Je m’incline devant toi, mon pays’’ —French version (2021) 13.Fireside Stories for a Winter’s Night (2015) 14.‘’Contes d’une nuit d’hiver autour de la cheminée’’—French version (2017) 15.‘’Historias de chimenea para una noche de invierno”—Spanish version (2017) 16.‘’Kaminfeuergeschichten einer Winternacht’’ —German version (2017) 17.‘’Придорожные истории на Зимнюю ночь’’(Fireside Stories - Russian edition) (2021) 18.“冬の夜のための炉辺の物語”(Fuyu no rinjin no tame no danro no monogatari: America Star Books - Japanese Edition - (2021)‫ 19.”قصص نارية لليلة شتاءقصص نارية لليلة شتاء’’ (America Star Books‬ - Arabic Edition - (2021) 20.“炉边故事冬天的夜晚”(America Star Books‬ - Chinese Edition - 2021) 21.Letters to Kathy (2015) (shortlisted for the 2016 Fred Kerner Prize of the Canadian Authors Association) 22.‘’Briefe and Kathy’’ —German version (2022) 23.‘’Lettres à Kathy’’—French version (2022) 24.‘’Cartas à Kathy’’—Spanish version (2022) 25.The Dear John Letter (2017) (longlisted for the Storyteller UK2017 Prize) 26.’’La Lettre ‘Cher John’ ‘’—French version (2022) 27.‘’Der Abschiedsbrief’’—German version (2022) 28.‘’La carta de Dear John’’—Spanish version (2022) “给凯西的信“: Letters to Kathy —Chinese version (2021) “キャシーへの手紙“: Letters to Kathy—Japanese version (2021) “Kathy’ye Mektuplar“: Letters to Kathy—Turkish version (2021) “Письма Кэти“: Letters to Kathy—Russian version(2021) 29.The Kentyre Forum (2017) 30.‘’Das Kentyre Forum’’—German version (2021) 31.‘’Le forum Kentyre’’ —French version(2021) 32.‘’El foro Kentyre’’ —Spanish version 2022) 33.There Never Was One Fairer (2019) (for the Storyteller UK 2019 Prize) 34.The Lakeside Cottage (2019) (for the Amazon KDP Pen-to- Publish Contest) Prize 2017) 35.‘’Das Landhaus am See’’ —German version (2022) 36.‘’La maison de campagne au bord du lac’’—French version (2022) 37.‘’La casa de campo junto al lago’’ — Spanish version (2022) 38.“Le Grand Ballet” —French original (2020) 39.‘’Das große Ballett’’—German version (2021) 40.‘’The Grand Ballet’’—English version (2021) 41.“El Gran Ballet”—Spanish version (2022) 42. for Netflix: There Never Was One Fairer (2020) 43.OH HOLY LAND! (2020) 44. OH TERRE SAINTE! (2020) 45.OH HEILIGES LAND! (2020) 46.ON THE OTHER HAND: Fireside Chats for a Summer’s Night (2020) 47.‘’D’ALTRA PARTE —Chiacchiere al fuoco per una note d’estate’’ – Italian Edition (2021) 48.’’D’AUTRE PART — Causeries autour du feu de camp d’une nuit d’été’’— French version (2021) 49.‘’EINERSEITS UND ANDERERSEITS - Lagerfeuergespräche einer Sommernacht’’—German version (2021) 50.‘’POR OTRA PARTE – Conversaciones a la orilla del fuego para una noche de verano’’—Spanish version (2021) 51.CULINARY CULTURE CANADA: The Ultimate Definition of Food, Eating, and Etiquette (2020) 52.‘’Kulinarische Kultur Kanada’’—German version (2021) 53.‘’Culture culinaire Canada’’ —French version (2022) 54.‘’Kulinarisk Kultur Kanada – Recept-Historia-Etikett’’—Swedish version (2022) 55.‘’Cultura Culinaria Canada – Recetas-Historia-Etiqueta’’—Spanish version (2022) 56.The Night Our World Fell Apart (2021) 57.‘’Die Nacht, als unsere Welt zusammenbrach’’ —German version(2021) 58.‘’La nuit où notre monde s'est effondré’’—French version (2021) 59.‘’La noche en que nuestro mundo se desmoronó’’ —Spanish version (2022) 60.A Life Remembered (2022) 61.Veranda Chats and Stories of a Spring Night (2023) 62.“Verandagespräche und –geschichten einer Frühlingsnacht (2023) 63.“Charlas y historias de una noche de primavera en la terraza’’ (expected in April 2025) 64.‘’Papotages et histoires d’une nuit de printemps sur la véranda’’ (expected in April 2025) 65.The Arenenberg Chair (2023) 66.‘’Der Arenenberg-Stuhl’’ (2023) 67.Lawnchair Chats and Stories of an Autumn Night (2024) 68.‘’Gartenstuhl Gespräche und Geschichten einer Herbstnacht” (2024) 69.“Causeries et histoires d’une nuit d’automne en chaises des Laurentides” (2024) 70.Silent Night, Silent Tear (publication expected in 2026) 71.The Rahel Poems (2024) 72.I Has a Castle in Canada (publication expected in 2025) 73.The Martyrium of Love (publication expected in 2026) 74.Why? —The Doris Steger-Bütler Story (publication expected in 2026) Co-authored: 75.Merging Waters (2023) (with Christine Beelen, Tsippi Guttmann-Nahir, Blaine Marchand, Arlene Smith, and Adrienne Stevenson) 76.From Adelaide to Ottawa by Maragret Bott (2023) 77.Translation of Gottfried Fahrni’s The History of the Von Farne Family, into: 78.German: ‘’Die Geschichte der Familie Von Farne’’ (2021) 79.French: ‘’L’histoire de la famille Von Farne’’ (2021); and 80.Supervision of its translation into Polish: ‘’Historia Rodzin Von Farne I Polucha’’ (2021) 81.Co-translation of Peter Sorokan’s There Was An Endless Sky, into 82.French: ‘’Il y avait un ciel sans fin’’ (2022) 83.Spanish: ‘’Había un cielo infinito’’ (2022) 84.German: ‘’Es gab einen endlosen Himmel’’ (2022) Supervision of its translation into 85.Russian: ‘’Было бесконечное небо’’ (2022) 86.Ukrainian: БУЛО БЕЗКРАЄ НЕБО- ДІДУСЕВА РОЗПОВІДЬ (2022) 87.Translation of ‘’Maisonneuve et Mance’’. An opera by Louise Gareau-Desbois and Aleksey Shegolev 88.English: Maisonneuve & Mance 89.Russian: “Мезоннёв и Манс: Опера об основании города Монреаль в Канаде” 90.German: “Maisonneuve und Mance: Eine Oper über die Gründung der Stadt Montreal in Kanada” 91.Spanish: ‘’Maisonneuve y Mance: Una ópera sobre la fundación de la ciudad de Montreal en Canadá ‘’ 92.Japanese: ‘’ メゾヌーブとマンス カナダ・モントリオール市の創設を描いたオペラ’’ 93.Chinese: ‘’ 麦松纽夫与曼斯 关于加拿大蒙特利尔建市的歌剧 ‘’

Further reading [edit source] • Villiger, Peter. 750 Jahre Villinger Villiger (1985)

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