Alexi Zentner
Alexi Zentner (born August 29, 1973 in Kitchener, Ontario ) is a Canadian-American writer. He also writes under the pseudonym Ezekiel Boone .
Life
Alexi Zentner attended Grinnell College (BA) and then studied at Cornell University (MFA). He worked at Cornell University and has since taught literature at Binghamton University .
His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and Narrative Magazine , among others . In 2008 he received the O. Henry Prize for the short story Touch , and the debut novel of the same name was on the long list of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Canadian authors in 2011 . Under the pseudonym Ezekiel Boone, he writes detective novels and horror stories, including the series The Hatching , the first episode of which received the Prix Masterton in the French translation Éclosion 2019 .
Zentner lives with his family in Ithaca (New York) .
Works (selection)
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Touch . WW Norton & Company, 2011
- The whisper of the snow . Translation by Werner Loch Lawrence . Munich: btb, 2013 ISBN 978-3-442-75289-8
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The Lobster Kings . WW Norton & Company, 2014
- The Lobster Kings: Roman . Translation by Werner Loch Lawrence. Munich: btb, 2017 ISBN 978-3-442-71544-2
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Copperhead . Penguin Random House, 2019
- A color between love and hate: Roman . Translation by Werner Loch Lawrence. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2020 ISBN 978-3-518-76525-8
- Ezekiel Boone
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The hatching
- The Brut - You Are Here: Thriller . Translation by Rainer Schmidt. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2017
- You are there . Audio book read by Wolfgang Wagner . Argon, 2017
- Skitter
- Zero day
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The mansion
- The Brut - Time is running: Thriller . Translation by Rainer Schmidt. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2017
- Time is running out . Audio book read by Wolfgang Wagner . Argon, 2017
- The Brut - The End Is Coming: Thriller . Translation by Rainer Schmidt. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2017
- The end is near . Audio book read by Wolfgang Wagner . Argon, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexi Zentner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Alexi Zentner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Boone, Ezekiel in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Alexi Zentner at Binghamton University (English)
- Website of Alexi Zentner (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The assignment of the other translations is still missing
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hundredweight, Alexi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 29th August 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kitchener, Ontario |