Annie Proulx

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Edna Annie Proulx [ pruː ] (born August 22, 1935 in Norwich , Connecticut ) is a Canadian - American writer and journalist .

Life

Proulx's mother came from a long-established Connecticut middle-class family and the father was French-Canadian . Therefore, Proulx has both US and Canadian citizenship.

Proulx studied history and graduated from the University of Vermont with her BA in 1969 . She then studied in Montréal at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University ), where she graduated in 1973 with a Master of Arts (MA). First she started writing as a journalist and non-fiction author. At the age of 50 Proulx turned to fiction and published her first novel Postcards at the age of 57 .

She lived in Vermont for more than 30 years , was married three times, has three sons and a daughter. When she was sixty, she moved to Wyoming , where she u. a. for her short story Brokeback Mountain (1997). In 2003 she bought 40  acres of land overlooking the North Platte River with no electricity or telephone connections and had a house built there. A few years ago she gave up her remote home and moved to Seattle , where she has lived ever since. In support of this, Proulx said that the daily errands in Wyoming required very long car journeys, which she no longer wanted to undertake in old age. In addition, the winters in the Midwest are very hard and require a good physical condition.

Works and their awards

Published in 1988 Proulx in the US under the title Heart Songs and Other Stories (dt. Heart Songs , 1998) a collection of short stories.

Her first novel Postcards (Eng. "Postkarten", 1992) about the life of a farming family earned her the coveted PEN / Faulkner Award as the first woman .

The following novel, The Shipping News, set in Newfoundland, was a worldwide success. For him, the author received the Pulitzer Prize , the National Book Award and the "The Irish Times International Fiction Prize". The novel is about a widowed man who tries to start over in the remoteness of a small Newfoundland coastal town. The novel was in Hollywood with the same title by director Lasse Hallstrom filmed with prominent actors and ran successfully in the film art -Kinos.

Further works by Proulx are the novel Accordion Crimes (Eng. "The Green Accordion", 1996) and the novel That Old Ace in the Hole (Eng. "Mitten in Amerika", 2002). After this novel, the Theater am Rand in the village of Zollbrücke staged a play under the direction of its artistic director and actor Thomas Rühmann . In addition, three volumes with stories from Wyoming were published: Close Range (Eng. “Far outside”, 1999), Bad Dirt (Eng. “Hinterland”, 2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is (Eng. “I've always liked it here ", 2008). Close Range was awarded the book prize of The New Yorker magazine in 1999 and was awarded the English-Speaking Union's Ambassador Book Award and Borders Original Voices Award in Fiction in 2000 .

The German translation of her memoir Ein Haus in der Wildnis was published in 2011. Proulx's novel Barkskins , published in 2016, was published in German in 2017 under the title Aus hartem Holz .

Ang Lee filmed Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain in 2005 , which first appeared in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997 . The narrative won the 1998 O. Henry Prize and the National Magazine Award . As early as 1997, the writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry and the film producer Diana Ossana had adapted the 50-page story for the big screen. In 1999 Proulx published a revised version in her anthology Close Range . Ang Lee's film about the lifelong love of two cowboys who can only live out their love on sporadic fishing trips was awarded four Golden Globes and three Academy Awards in 2006, including for best adapted screenplay. Proulx was the scriptwriter herself for both “Schiffsmachrichten” and “Brokeback Mountain” .

In 2014 the opera Brokeback Mountain had its world premiere with the music of Charles Wuorinen at the Teatro Real in Madrid , the libretto is by Proulx.

“Books, films and operas each have their own laws. That became clear yesterday at the world premiere of the opera The Cowboy Love Story. Silent cowboys and country music have no place there. And director Ivo van Hove took that into account. "

- Brokeback Mountain now as an opera at the Teatro Real in Madrid :

In 2007 Proulx was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2014 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2017 she was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (Lifetime Achievement) .

“My people don't dream. They fight for bare survival in a merciless landscape that does not allow them any personal freedom. "

- Proulx, in Hamburger Abendblatt, 2005

“I've spent so much time alone. I am not a social person. That's why I'm not so attached to most people. There is a distance between me and most of the others. It's been like this my whole life. "

- Proulx, in Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2011

Web links

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Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Postcards , Mark Asquith, 2009, ISBN 9781847064554 .
  2. ↑ The aura of the good old things in: FAZ from January 31, 2012, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Bernadette Conrad: Bald eagles and tatami mats - Annie Proulx writes about her house on the Hudson. In: NZZ from August 2, 2012, accessed on August 2, 2012.
  4. ^ Translated from Michael Hofmann. Extract from the cover story of the UdT Unterwegs , in Marina Klüver ed .: Sommer, Sonne, Leselust. Das Große Ferien-Lesebuch , 5. Goldmann, as early as 1997 (!), Ie a preprint, pp. 7-25
  5. ↑ Bus trip to the 'Theater am Rand' in Oderbruch , accessed on June 26, 2017.
  6. ↑ The Search Continues - Annie Proulx: 'A House in the Wild'. Review by Rainer Moritz , Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 15, 2011, accessed on August 2, 2012
  7. ↑ Brokeback Mountain. An opera in two acts based on the short story of Annie Proulx. In: "Charleswuorinen.com". Retrieved February 16, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Peter Jungblut, Bayerischer Rundfunk, January 29, 2014
  9. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Proulx, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Proulx, Edna Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwich, Connecticut , USA