Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman (2011)

Amy Waldman (born May 21, 1969 in the USA ) is an American journalist and author .

Life

Waldman studied at Yale University and then went to the New York Times for a total of eight years . She started out as a reporter for the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Bronx as well as the Harlem neighborhood . She also reported on the effects of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . She then served as the co-director of the newspaper's New Delhi , India office for three years .

After her return to the United States, Waldman was, among other things, a correspondent for The Atlantic magazine . She was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and a 2010 Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin .

Waldman's first novel, The Submission, deals with the period after September 11, 2001 and describes the reactions after a Muslim architect won the competition for a monument on Ground Zero in an anonymous tendering process . It was published in English in 2011 and received several awards in the same year. The novel with the title The American Architect was published in German in 2013.

Waldman lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Awards

• Scholarship holder of the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin 2010.
• Entertainment Weekly : Most Popular Novel 2011.
• Esquire : Book of the Year 2011.
• The New York Times: Notable Book of 2011.
• The Washington Post : Notable Novel of 2011.
• NPR (National Public Radio): One of the ten best novels of 2011.
• Amazon.com : Among the best books of August 2011.
• The Guardian First Book Award : 2011 Proposal List.
• Prix ​​du premier roman étranger 2012 for Un concours de circonstances .

Publications

• The Submission . Random House UK, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-099528241 .
  • The American architect . Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-491-0 .

Web links

• Website of the author (en.)
• American Academy on the Berlin Prize for the author