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Christina Scheck
Christina Scheck (-Donatsch) (born June 24th 1954 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Swiss poet and writer.

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•	'''1 Life •	2 Work •	Weblinks'''

Life
Christina Scheck is a citizen of Zurich city, became first a trained retail bookseller, studied English und English Literature at the St. Albans Hertfordshire College in Great Britain (1976) and also 1979 at the Queens University College in Cork, Ireland. For a couple of decades she worked as a Science Librarian in Research and at Industry, received a diploma of the New Art School Zurich for painting and art history. Christina Scheck speaks German, English, French, Italian, some Croatian and Russian. She is widely travelled in Europe, the US, Canada and Alaska and has special knowledge of the Indian culture and certain North American tribes. Also she has insight knowledge of Botany, Herbal Medicine and Animal Behaviour. Between 1991 and 1998 she completed a 7 years training in complementary medicine and homoeopathy at the German Paracelsus Medical School and afterwards studied at Zurich University, Dept. of Alternative Medicine, as well as at the School for Continuing Medical Education, Adliswil. After this she studied for a Master Degree at UNC in North Carolina, USA for two years, was admitted for a PhD in complementary medicine at the Capital University in Washington DC and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where she started her writing career. When she returned to Switzerland in 2001, she completed an after-diploma course at the Fachhochschule Zurich Winterthur in Cultural Communications and Cultural Critics and received the certificate. Also, she completed a course for Tutors of the English Language. In 2006, und 2007 she participated with the Dulcinea poetry competition in Germany and 2007 for the Peter Haertling Award in Weinheim, Germany.

Christina Scheck is the author of poetry and prose in numerous anthologies and works as a translator, tutor of the English Language as well as a correspondent for newspapers besides her writing.

She received 7 times the „International Poet of Merit Award“ from the International Society of Poets, und two times the „Editor’s Choice Award“ from the International Library of Poetry in Maryland, USA and in 2004 the „Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award“ from the International Society of Poets in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

She writes in German and English and regards herself as a mediator between the two languages.

Work
•	In the World of Dixie, International Library of Poetry, MD, Watermark Press, 2003 •	Zwischen Dunkelheit und Licht/Between Darkness and Light. Gedichte aus North- und South Carolina und der Schweiz/Poems of North- and South Carolina and Switzerland, 2004, Kuhn Druck, Neuhausen ISBN 3-033-00318-4 •	Märchen der Kwakiutl Indianer Kanadas, auf deutsch nacherzählt und mit Vorwort und Kommentaren versehen, illustriert von Indianer Künstlern, 2008 (Fairy Tales of the        Kwakiutl Indians in Canada, translated, retold with           comments, with a prologue of the history and customs of         this Tribe). (3 illustrations which were permitted by Indian        artists of the Kwakiutl Tribe are included).

Weblinks
•	Reference entry in the Library of Congress Catalogue, Washington DC, 2003 ISBN 0-7951-0321-2 •	Literature from and about Christina Scheck at the Swiss National Library Catalogue 2004 as well as the German National Library Catalogue 2004