Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963 in Los Angeles ) is an American writer.
Life
Ann Patchett grew up in Los Angeles and moved to Nashville when her parents divorced when she was sixteen . She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College , Bronxville, NY, and a Master of Fine Arts (1987) from the University of Iowa .
She published her first works as a student. She worked as a teacher and a waitress before becoming a freelance writer. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1994 and a 1997 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South at Sewanee .
Patchett writes short stories, essays, and novels. In her best-known novel Bel Canto , she describes the surprising relationships that develop between South American hostage-takers and their prisoners. For this work she received the PEN / Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize . The Time magazine put it in 2012 on the list of 100 most influential people in the world (The 100 Most Influential People in the World).
In the biographical work Truth and Beauty , she writes about her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy , who died in 2002.
Works
Novels
- The Patron Saint of Liars. 1992.
- Taffeta. 1994.
- The Magician's Assistant. 1997.
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Bel Canto. 2003.
- Bel Canto. Translation by Karin Lauer. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-492-04340-2 .
- Truth and Beauty. 2005.
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Run. 2007.
- Family matters. Translation of Uli Aumüller. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05140-8 .
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State of Wonder . Harper, New York City 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-204980-3 .
- River of miracles. Translation by Werner Loch Lawrence . Bloomsbury, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-1056-8 .
- This is the story of a happy marriage . Harper, New York City 2013
- Commonwealth . Harper, New York City 2016
Non-fiction
- Truth & Beauty: A Friendship. 2004.
- What now? 2008.
Awards
- 1994 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Taft
- 2002 PEN / Faulkner Award for Bel Canto
- 2002 Orange Prize for Bel Canto
She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2017 . In 2020 Patchett was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Web links
- Homepage of Ann Patchett
- Literature by and about Ann Patchett in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Patchett, Ann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd December 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |