Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American writer .

Life

Aimee Bender received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, San Diego and a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine . Her professors at Irvine included Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff . Since then she has been friends with the American writer Alice Sebold .

Bender's short stories were initially published in publications such as Granta, McSweeney's, and The Paris Review . In 1998, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a collection of the short stories in book form, came out as Das Mädchen, das Feuer caught in German. Her first novel An Invisible Sign of My Own , which was published in German in 2003 under the title I could disappear if you touch me , followed in 2005 with Willful Creatures , another volume with short stories, and in 2009 the story The Third Elevator .

In the special Sadness of Lemon Cake ( The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , 2010) Bender tells of a girl who was discovered at the age of nine years, that they which prevailed when cooking can be tasted in the consumption of food, the feeling feelings of others. With slightly surreal features, the novel depicts the breakup of her family and the girl's difficult path into adult life.

Bender won the Pushcart Prize twice and was nominated for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 2005. In 2009 she was one of the finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award in the Short Story category with her short story Faces . Her works have been translated into sixteen languages.

Aimee Bender lives in Los Angeles and currently teaches (2011) creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also involved in a workshop that helps mentally handicapped and disadvantaged people to complete and perform their self-made plays.

Publications

  • The Girl in the Flammable Skirt , 1998.
  • An Invisible Sign of My Own , 2000.
  • Willful Creatures , 2005.
  • The Secret Society of Demolition Writers- Stories . Random House, New York City, USA 2005, ISBN 1-400062640 .
  • The Third Elevator , 2009, ISBN 978-0-9825254-0-1 .
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , Doubleday, New York City, USA 2010, ISBN 978-0-385-50112-5 .
    • The particular sadness of lemon cake. Novel. Translated from the English by Christiane Buchner and Martina Tichy. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-0986-9 .
  • The Color Master: Stories. , Doubleday, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-385-53489-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angry cookies and deeply sad spaghetti , Deutschlandradio Kultur, June 10, 2011
  2. ↑ Winners and finalists of the 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Aimee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , Californians , USA