Adam Haslett

Adam Haslett (2016)

with Amity Gaige (2013)

Adam Haslett (born December 24, 1970 in Port Chester , New York ) is an American writer and lawyer.

Life

Haslett grew up in Massachusetts and Oxfordshire, England . He studied literature and law at Yale , Swarthmore College, and the University of Iowa . His work includes, among other things, the collaboration on the short story volume Das Gespenst der Liebe and the novel Union Atlantic .

The specter of love won the PEN / Malamud Award in 2006. The novel Union Atlantic deals with the current financial crisis, but moves it forward to 2002. In 2011 he received the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Fiction category for the book . In the second half of 2011 he had a working scholarship from the American Academy in Berlin . His novel Imagine Me Gone received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2016 .

Works

• Das Gespenst der Liebe , Goldmann 2003, ISBN 978-3442454174
  • New edition with a new title: Dedication. Stories , translated from the English by Pociao and Roberto de Hollanda; Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-25419-2
• Union Atlantic , Rowohlt 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-03000-1
• Imagine Me Gone . Little, Brown and Co 2016, ISBN 978-0-316-26135-7
  • Imagine I'm gone: Roman . Translation of Dirk van Gunsteren . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Adam Haslett in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.adamhaslett.net Adam Haslett , website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jenn Reese: 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners. In: Lambda Literary. March 15, 2012, accessed March 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Mary Ellen of the Heyden Fiction Fellow, Class of Fall 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.