Amanda Filipacchi

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Amanda Filipacchi

Amanda Filipacchi (* 1967 in Paris ) is an American writer known for her controversial novels and her peculiar humor. Her works have garnered critical acclaim in the US and around the world. They have since been translated into 13 languages.

Career

Filipacchi, the daughter of the publisher Daniel Filipacchi , was born in Paris . Filipacchi started writing at the age of 13. When she was 17 she moved to New York. She attended Hamilton College , New York State, and graduated early with a Bachelor of Arts in fiction.

She was accepted into the MFA ( Master of Fine Arts ) program at Columbia University in 1990. Shortly thereafter, she began to work on her novel Nude Men ( Nude Men ), which later served as a thesis. She took a course from Alice Quinn, then editor of fiction and poetry at The New Yorker magazine . Filipacchi recommended Melanie Jackson as a literary agent.

In 1992 Jackson sold Naked Men to Nan Graham from Vikings . The novel has been translated into 13 languages ​​and the reviews - both in the US and abroad - have been almost unanimously positive. Naked Men later became part of an anthology called The Best American Humor 1994 ( Simon & Schuster , 1994).

Filipacchi has since written two more novels: Vapor (1999) and Love Creeps (2005), which in turn were well received by critics and have also been translated into several languages.

Her work has not only met with critical acclaim, but also among authors such as Bret Easton Ellis , Tama Janowitz , Edmund White , Dale Peck , Alain de Botton , Kathryn Harrison and the French director Louis Malle .

Critics sometimes referred to Filipacchi's works as "terribly funny"; the writer herself has been described as “wonderful post-feminist talent”. The New York Times called her a "beautiful comedian of surrealism". Her novels were also compared with those of John Irving , Vladimir Nabokov , Muriel Spark , John Fante , Angela Carter , Lewis Carroll , Woody Allen and Ann Beattie . Love Creeps was now one of the top 25 novels of the year on The Village Voice, which is published in New York .

On the occasion of the publication of the Dutch translation of Love Creeps in late summer 2004, Filipacchi was invited to the literature festival in Saint Amour , Belgium. She was the only representative of the United States at the 10-day festival. Her first novel Naked Men was very well received in Belgium.

She currently lives in New York City.

bibliography

  • Naked Men (Haffmans Verlag, 1993) / Original German version: Nude Men (Viking / Penguin, 1993)
  • Vapor (Carroll & Graf, 1999)
  • Love Creeps (St. Martin's, 2005)
  • The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Independent (London) August 22, 1999 . Retrieved December 6, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Filipacchi, Amanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris