AL Kennedy

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Alison Louise Kennedy (born October 22, 1965 in Dundee , Scotland ; form of name as author: AL Kennedy ) is a British writer .

Life

AL Kennedy grew up in Dundee and studied from 1983 to 1986 at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England ( Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies and Drama ). She lived in Glasgow for a long time ; In 2012 she moved to London and in 2016 to Wivenhoe .

Her novels and stories find a large readership and critical acclaim in Germany too . Except for the invitation to dance , they have all been published in translations by Ingo Herzke by Verlag Klaus Wagenbach and Carl Hanser Verlag . AL Kennedy was u. a. Received the Somerset Maugham Award .

In her works she often combines harsh realism with fantastic elements. The comic and the serious, the tender and the brutal, stand side by side. Sometimes she also uses religious allusions. Her most extensive novel Alles What You Need addresses, among other things, writing itself and the literature business.

Occasionally, AL Kennedy also performs stand-up comedy . She is a sharp critic of Britain's involvement in the Iraq war under Prime Minister Tony Blair and has been a speaker at anti-war demonstrations. At times she also worked as a columnist for The Guardian newspaper . From 2002 to 2007 she taught creative writing as a part-time lecturer at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and since 2007 as an associate professor at the University of Warwick.

Many of her texts were published as radio plays , and she also wrote specifically for this radio format. For example, she wrote the original radio plays Blood Empire and Love, Love, Love - like the Beatles - for Südwestrundfunk (SWR) . Her first original radio play Born a Fox was created in 2004 for the BBC and was produced in 2012 for the SWR under the title Born a fox - Born as a fox and directed by Iris Drögekamp .

Since the beginning of 2020 she has been writing a weekly column with the heading Affentheater about her view of Brexit for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

filming

Sven Taddicken has with Martina Gedeck and Ulrich Tukur in the lead roles Original Bliss on German Gleaming luck , made into a film. The English title alludes to Original Sin , the original sin , and refers to the heroine's conflicts.

Awards

• 2007: Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 2007: COSTA Book Award in the Novel category for Day
• 2008: 1st International Eifel Literature Prize
• 2016: Heinrich Heine Prize of the City of Düsseldorf
• 2017: Admission to the Berlin Academy of the Arts

Works

• Glitzendes Glück (2000), novel, ISBN 3-8031-3151-0 ; orig. Original Bliss (1997 in the story of the same name, 1998 as a separate edition) .
  • dtv paperback, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-08652-3 .
• Invitation to Dance (2001), novel, ISBN 3-88243-890-8 ; orig. Looking for the Possible Dance (1993) .
• Bullfight (2001), prose, ISBN 3-8031-3157-X ; orig. On Bullfighting (1999) .
• A Flawless Man (2001), Short Stories, ISBN 3-8031-3163-4 ; orig. some included in the original Bliss story tape (1997) .
• Everything you need (2002), Roman, ISBN 3-8031-2463-8 , orig. Everything You Need (1999) .
• So I'm Glad (2004), novel, ISBN 3-8031-3186-3 ; orig. So I Am Glad (1995) .
• Paradies (2005), novel, ISBN 3-8031-3196-0 ; orig. Paradise (2004) .
• Day (2007), Roman, ISBN 978-3-8031-3214-7 ; orig. Day (2007) .
• Was wird (2009), short stories, ISBN 978-3-8031-3223-9 ; orig. What becomes (2009) .
• The blue book. Novel. (2012), novel, translated by Ingo Herzke . ISBN 978-3-446-23981-4 ; orig. The Blue Book: A Novel .
• On writing (2013), Essays, ISBN 978-0-224-09697-3 , ISBN 978-1-4481-3034-4 .
• The latest craze . Stories, translated by Ingo Herzke . Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24720-8 , orig. All the Rage (2014)
• Quiet snaking . Story, translated by Ingo Herzke . Karl Rauch Verlag, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7920-0249-0 .
• Sweet seriousness . Roman, translated by Ingo Herzke and Susanne Höbel, Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26002-3 ; orig. Serious sweet .
• The Little Snake . Canongate, Edinburgh 2018, ISBN 978-1-78689-386-4 .

Radio plays

• 2012: Born a Fox - Born as a fox , from English by Ingo Herzke - Director: Iris Drögekamp , with Hans Löw , Anna Schudt , Hans-Werner Meyer , Lena Lauzemis ( SWF )
• 2016: Subterranean Homesick Blues , translated from English by Ingo Herzke - Director: Iris Drögekamp ( SWR )

Web links

Commons : AL Kennedy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about AL Kennedy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official Website of AL Kennedy (English)
• "The Queen of Evil" - Detailed Portrait of the author of Bernadette Conrad in the time of 11 November 2004
• Short biography and reviews of works by AL Kennedy at perlentaucher.de
• AL Kennedy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Audio recordings: AL Kennedy reads from "Das Blaue Buch" (2012) and "Was wird" (2009) on Lesungen.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sarah Crown: AL Kennedy: 'Being out of London is the new being in London'. In: theguardian.com. June 3, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ AL Kennedy: Popo, the death clown (Brexit column "Affentheater"). In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 9, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Mareike Gries: visually powerful and captivating film drama with Martina Gedeck and Ulrich Tukur in the leading roles "Glitzendes Glück" by Sven Taddicken. SWR, May 11, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Four female authors included , boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017.
5. ↑ Review: Sigrid Löffler : AL Kennedy: "The last cry". Love becomes greed , Deutschlandradio Kultur , March 16, 2015
6. ↑ SWR2 radio play on Sunday: Subterranean Homesick Blues, radio play by AL Kennedy , SWR2 , accessed September 27, 2016