Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American writer .

life and work

Tyler grew up in North Carolina and studied Slavic Studies at Duke and Columbia University . Since 1965 she has mainly published novels that thematize the fate of various protagonists in changing perspectives from narrative closeness to psychological distant views. Works like The Journeys of Mr. Leary were made into films (in this case by Lawrence Kasdan ). In 1989 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel breathing exercises . The critics agreed that Dinner in the Heimweh-Restaurant was their most successful and best book to date. In 1983 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1994 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2015, her book A Spool of Blue Thread was on the top list for the Man Booker Prize .

Tyler has a broad readership and writers, such as John Updike and Nick Hornby .

Private

Tyler met the Iranian child psychologist Taghi Modarressi (1931-1997) at Duke University , who had left Iran in 1959. In 1963 they married. There are two daughters from this marriage. Her daughter Mitra Modarressi is an illustrator of children's books.

Tyler has lived in Baltimore since 1967 , where many of her novels are set.

Influences and quotes

In one of her rare interviews with the New York Times, she named Eudora Welty as a major literary influence:

"Reading Eudora Welty when I was growing up showed me that very small things are often really larger than the large things."

"Reading Eudora Welty as a child showed me that very small things are in reality often bigger than big things."

- Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler said of her 1992 novel Sailing with the Stars ( Celestial Navigation ) that this was her toughest novel to date, and a favorite to date:

"Creating Jeremy was a way to examine my own tendency to turn more and more inward [as I write]."

- Anne Tyler

In the book, Tyler described a facet of himself in the character of Miss Vinton, whose favorite dream is:

"I read a book alone in my room and no one ever interrupts me."

- Anne Tyler

Elsewhere, she sees Dinner in the Homesick Restaurant ( Dinner at the Homesick Restauran ) as her best novel:

"It's the novel that came closest to what I imagined at the beginning."

- Anne Tyler

reception

British author Nick Hornby wrote of Tyler:

“I started reading Anne Tyler's books in the 1980s. Little did I know before that novelists were allowed to do what Tyler did - to write about family life with mind, humor, and heart. Anne Tyler changed my life. "

- Nick Hornby

Works

Novels

  • If Morning Ever Comes , 1964.
    • If morning ever comes . Translated by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12806-4 .
  • The Tin Can Tree , 1965.
    • The tin can tree . Translated by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12809-9 .
  • A Slipping-Down Life , 1970.
    • Life go . Translated by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-12808-0 .
  • The Clock Winder , 1972
    • Mrs. Emerson's caretaker , German by Claus Varrelmann; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1997. ISBN 3-10-080017-6
  • Celestial Navigation , 1974
  • Searching for Caleb , 1976.
    • Caleb or luck from the cards. Translated by Günther Danehl. Goverts, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7740-0472-2 .
  • Earthly Possessions , 1977.
    • Just don't stop , German by Günther Danehl; Goverts, Frankfurt am Main 1979. ISBN 3-7740-0497-8
  • Morgan's Passing , 1980
    • Mister Morgan and the puppeteer , German by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1994. ISBN 3-596-12047-0
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant , 1982
    • Dinner in the Heimweh-Restaurant , German by Ulrike von Puttkamer; Marion von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1985. ISBN 978-3-0369-5688-6
    • also as: Dinner in the Heimweh restaurant , same translation; Kein & Aber, Zurich / Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-0369-5688-6
  • The Accidental Tourist , 1985
    • Mr. Leary's tours ; German by Alexandra Baumrucker, Marion von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1987. ISBN 3-547-79194-4
    • also as: The Travels of Mr. Leary , same translation; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1989. ISBN 3-596-28294-2
  • Breathing Lessons , 1988
  • Saint Maybe , 1991
    • Almost a saint , German by Ruth Frank-Strauss; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3-10-080012-5
  • Ladder of Years 1995
    • Little Farewells , German by Christine Frick-Gerke; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996. ISBN 3-10-080013-3
  • A Patchwork Planet 1998
    • Engel wanted , German by Sibylle Hunzinger; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998. ISBN 3-10-080020-6
  • Back When We Were Grownups , 2001
    • Back when we were adults, by Christel Dormagen; Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2003. ISBN 3-8105-1925-1
  • The Amateur Marriage , 2004
  • Digging to America , 2006
    • Day of arrival , German by Christine Frick-Gerke and Gesine Strempel; List, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-471-78946-9
  • Noah's Compass , 2009
  • The Beginner's Goodbye , 2012
    • Farewell for Beginners , German from Christine Frick-Gehrke; Kein & Aber, Zurich / Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-0369-5642-8
  • A Spool of Blue Thread , Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 2015, ISBN 978-1-101-87427-1 .
  • Vinegar Girl , 2016
  • Clock Dance , Chatto & Windus 2018, ISBN 978-1784742447
  • Redhead by the Side of the Road , 2020

Children's books

  • Tumble Tower , 1993 - illustrated by Mitra Modarressi
  • Timothy Tugbottom Says No! , 2005 - illustrated by Mitra Modarressi

Film adaptations

  • 1988: The Travels of Mr. Leary
  • 1994: breathing exercises (Breathing Lessons) (TV film, directed by John Erman)
  • 1998: Driven by Guilt (Saint Maybe) - Director: Michael Pressman - based on the novel Almost a Saint
  • 1999: A Slipping-Down Life (Direction: Toni Kalem )
  • 1999: Earthly Possessions (TV movie, director: James Lapine)
  • 2004: Back When We Were Grownups (TV movie, directed by Ron Underwood )

literature

  • Gabriele Strake-Behrendt: Anne Tyler's novels, from modernity to postmodernism (= European university publications , series 14, Anglo-Saxon language and literature , volume 221), Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-631-43087-6 ( dissertation TU Braunschweig 1990, 364 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Total Chaos. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ iranicaonline.org: MODARRESI, Taqi
  3. ↑ zeit.de:The value of silence
  4. ^ Mitra Modarressi
  5. ↑ a b theguardian.com: Interview
  6. ↑ nytimes.com: Anne Tyler, Writer 8:05 to 3:30
  7. ↑ a b vqronline.org: Watching Through Windows: A Perspective on Anne Tyler
  8. ↑ zeit.de: The value of silence
  9. ↑ Novelties from independent publishers , Börsenblatt dated June 14, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tyler, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota, United States