Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American writer .
life and work
Doerr grew up in Cleveland and graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick with a degree in history in 1995 . He received an MFA degree from Bowling Green State University .
Anthony Doerr has published two volumes of short stories, an autobiographical report and two novels. His novel All the light that we do not see (Engl. All the Light We Can not See ) was in 2014 among the finalists for the National Book Award and was ranked one of the New York Times bestseller list . Even before this book, Anthony Doerr was awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize , the Rome Prize , the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award in 2003 and The Story Prize in 2010 .
The novel All Light That We Don't See , published in 2014, connects the story of the blind Marie-Laure from France with that of the orphans Werner and Jutta Pfennig from Germany before and during the German occupation of France in World War II . The novel won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . The three-person jury described the book as imaginative and complex. She characterized the book as written in short, elegant chapters. Carmen Callil wrote in the Guardian of the original English version of the book that a large number of American expressions, as well as Doerr's short sentences, made the first hundred pages of the book difficult to read. However, she praises how Doerr knows how to shed this overload in the course of the book. She praises the richness of detail in the book, the background of which has been carefully researched. Doerr is praised by her as a great storyteller who manages to compensate for the book's weaknesses and cast a spell over the reader so that one does not want to put the book down before reading it through.
Anthony Doerr lives in Boise , Idaho with his wife and two sons .
Works
- The shell collector . Stories (Original title: The Shell Collector , 2002, translated by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk). Beck , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55615-9 .
- Winkler's dream of water . Roman (Original title: About Grace , 2004, translated by Judith Schwaab ). Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-53547-5 .
- Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World, Memoirs, 2007.
- Memory wall . Novella. (Original title: Memory Wall . Short story collection, 2010, translated by Werner Loch-Lawrence ). Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-71554-1 .
- All the light we don't see (Original title: All the Light We Cannot See , 2014, translated by Werner Loch-Lawrence). Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66751-0 ; 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68063-2 .
Awards
- 2015: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction for All the Light We Cannot See
- 2015: Pulitzer Prize / Fiction for All the Light We Cannot See
- 2015: Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Fiction Runner-up) for All the Light We Cannot See
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Award-winning: Anthony Doerr's “Shell Seeker” , Die Welt , February 3, 2007
- ↑ Pulitzer prize for fiction goes to All the Light We Cannot See in The Guardian , April 21, 2015, accessed April 21, 2015
- ↑ Carmen Callil All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr review - a story of morality, science and Nazi occupation in: The Guardian, May 17, 2014, accessed April 21, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doerr, Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio , United States |