Alan Lelchuk
Alan Lelchuk (* 1938 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American writer and university professor . His novels and short stories have been translated into more than half a dozen languages, including Danish , Dutch , French , German , Hebrew , Hungarian , Japanese , Russian, and Spanish .
Life
Lelchuk graduated from Brooklyn College in 1960 and then studied at University College London . He received his MA in 1963 and completed his doctorate in 1965 . He began teaching at Brandeis University in 1966 and was visiting writer at the renowned Amherst College from 1982 to 1984 . Participants in his seminar on creative writing included David Foster Wallace , who had his breakthrough as a novelist in 1996 with Unendlicher Fun and whose narrative work is counted among the most intellectually and artistically daring that modern American literature has produced in recent years. Lelchuk, a realist writer, was not enthusiastic about the work Wallace put before him, but conceded that he had an unusual talent.
Lelchuk has been a professor at Dartmouth College since 1985 . Lelchuk has also given seminars in creative writing and American literature at Lomonosov University in Moscow, Naples University Federico II in Naples and at the Free University of Berlin . He lives in New Hampshire .
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His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Transatlantic Review , The Atlantic , Modern Occasions , The Boston Globe Magazine, and Partisan Review . His novels are
- American mischief. Farrar Straus, New York and Cape, London 1973.
- Miriam at Thirty-four. Farrar Straus, New York 1974; Cape, London 1975.
- Shrinking: The Beginning of My Own Ending. Little Brown, Boston 1978.
- Miriam in Her Forties. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1985.
- Brooklyn boy. McGraw Hill, New York 1989.
- Playing the game. Baskerville, Dallas 1995.
Awards
- Yaddo Foundation Grant in 1968, 1969, 1971 and 1973
- MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1969 and 1974
- Guggenheim Fellowship from 1976 to 1977
- Fulbright Writer-in-Residence at the University of Haifa , Israel 1986 to 1987.
- 1999–2000: Otto Salgo Chair in American Literature at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest , Hungary
Web links
- Dartmouth College Jewish Studies Department
- Biography of Lelchuk
- Literature by and about Alan Lelchuk in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Cult writer David Foster Wallace found dead. Article dated September 14, 2008, accessed April 9, 2014
- ↑ Max: Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story. A Life of David Foster Wallace . 2012, p. 39.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lelchuk, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |