Jerome Charyn

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Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937 in New York City ) is an American writer.

Life

His parents were Jewish immigrants, he first learned Yiddish and soaked up the atmosphere of New York City, which later provided the material basis for almost all of his books.

In 1957 he graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and comparative literature. From 1995 to 2010 he taught film studies at the American University of Paris , before turning his back on Europe again.

Charyn has published around 37 books, mostly crime novels . One of the recurring characters is the fictional policeman Isaac Sidel . According to Charyn, this was not based on reading experience, but on close observation of his brother's professional colleagues, who was a homicide detective in the 1970s. When designing the character, however, the author has given himself great freedom, adheres to "no conventions and restrictions" of the crime genre, so that a proximity to the comic hero Dick Tracy is noticeable. Charyn says, "New York is a comic book city."

Two autobiographical works about his childhood and youth in the Bronx were named Book of the Year by the New York Times . For his novel Darlin 'Bill he received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Crime of the year 2008 (6th place) he was in the KrimiWelt best list with Citizen Sidel .

The writer lives and works in southern Manhattan .

Works

Autobiographical

  • The dark beauty from Belarus ("The Dark Lady from Belorusse"). Fest-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8286-0124-3 .
  • The black swan. A memory of the Bronx ("The Black Swan"). Fest-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8286-0152-9 .

Biographies

comics

illustrated by Jacques de Loustal :

  • The Adamov brothers ("Les frères Adamov"), Verlag Schreiber & Leser, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-922548-83-0 .
  • White Sonya ("White Sonya"), Verlag Schreiber & Leser, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-933187-39-7 .

illustrated by François Boucq :

Detective novels

  • Isaak Sidel series
  1. Blue eyes. Supercop Isaac Sidel from the Lower East Side ("Blue Eyes" 1974). Rotbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-434-54046-6 .
  2. Marilyn the Wild. Supercop Isaac Sidel from the Lower East Side ("Marilyn the Wild" 1976). Rotbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-434-54047-4 .
  3. Patrick Silver. Supercop Isaac Sidel from the Lower East Side . ("The Education of Patrick Silver" 1976) Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-25681-3 .
  4. Secret Isaac. Supercop Isaac Sidel from the Lower East Side ("Secret Isaac" 1978). German by Jürgen Bürger and Peter Torberg Rotbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-54000-8 .
  5. The Good Policeman (1990)
  6. Maria ("Maria's Girls" 1992)
  7. Montezuma's Man ("Montezuma's Man 1993)
  8. Settlement in Little Odessa ("Little Angel Street" 1994)
  9. El Bronx ("El Bronx" 1997)
  10. Citizen Sidel. New York tough ("Citizen Sidel"). Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86789-039-7 .
  11. Under the eye of God . Diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-03734-429-3 .
  12. Winter warning ( "Winter warning"), from the American English by Sabine Schulz, Zurich; Berlin: Diaphanes 2017. ISBN 978-3-03734-648-8 .
  • Paradise Man. Roman ("Paradise Man"). Rotbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-88022-391-2 .
  • Death of a Tango King. Roman ("Death of a Tango King"). Unionsverlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-293-20180-6 .

Novels

  • Captain Kidd . St. Martin's Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-312-20506-6 .
  • Elsinore . Bloomsbury, London 1992, ISBN 0-7475-1015-6 .
  • Hurricane Lady . Mysterious Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-446-67733-7 .
  • Johnny One-Eye. A tale of the American Revolution . Norton Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-393-06497-1 .
  • I am Abraham. A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War . Liveright Publishing 2014.

Non-fiction

  • Gangsters and gold diggers. Old New York, the jazz age, and the birth of Broadway . Four Walls Eight Windows Edition, New York 2003, ISBN 1-56858-278-1 .
  • Metropolis New York ("Metropolis"). Dtv, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-11258-1 .
  • Sizzling chops and devilish spins . Four Walls Eight Windows Edition, New York 2001, ISBN 1-56858-207-2 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Visiting Jerome Charyn , report by Dirk Schmidt in CulturMag from August 31, 2013, accessed February 2, 2015.
  2. ^ Crime writer Jerome Charyn: Kreative Halluzinationsen , portrait of the author by Tobias Gohlis in Die Zeit from November 7, 2013, accessed February 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ The Black Swan , book review on Deutschlandfunk, 2002.
  4. ^ Under the Eye of God , review by Alexander Müller in Rolling Stone on November 7, 2013, accessed February 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ Tobias Gohlis: Jerome Charyn: "Winter Warning" "The Good President" , review in Deutschlandradio Kultur on February 3, 2017, accessed February 3, 2017
  6. ↑ Monument Man , Review by Richard Brookhiser in the New York Times, February 23, 2014, accessed February 2, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Charyn, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City