Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra (born 1984 in Washington, DC ) is an American writer .
Life
After a BA from the University of Southern California, Marra earned an MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University from 2011 to 2013 .
In 2012, he won the $ 50,000 Whiting Writers Award in Fiction, presented annually to talented debut authors.
Marra now lives in Oakland , California .
About his work
During studies in Prague and Saint Petersburg, Marra's interest in Chechen history grew.
His debut novel The Low Heavens tells the fictional story of eight-year-old Hawah, her neighbor Achmed and the Russian doctor Sonja in the Second Chechen War .
Works
Single novels
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. Hogarth, 2013, ISBN 978-0-77043-640-7
- The low skies. Translation by Stefanie Jacobs. Suhrkamp, 2014, ISBN 978-3-51842-427-8
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The Tsar of Love and Techno - Stories. Hogarth, 2015, ISBN 978-0-77043-643-8
- Last Song of a Past World - Stories. Translation Stefanie Jacobs, Ulrich Blumenbach. Suhrkamp, 2016, ISBN 978-3-51842-534-3
Short stories
- The Wolves of Bilaya Forest. The Atlantic, 2012 (English)
Awards
- The Cleveland Foundation: " Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction" 2014
- John Leonard Award of the " National Book Critics Circle Award " 2013
- " Whiting Writers' Award in fiction" 2012
Web links
- Official website (English)
- "Giving Up" (essay) (English)
- When a Sentence Changes Your Life - Then Changes Its Own Meaning (Essay )
- "Chechnya" (Narrative Magazine) (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anthony Marra , at Suhrkamp
- ^ Anthony Marra , Whiting Foundation, accessed August 13, 2015
- ↑ Anthony Marra , website (English)
- ↑ Letter from Anthony Marra to his readers , at Suhrkamp ( PDF )
- ↑ The low sky , near Suhrkamp
- ↑ Famed boxer, Chechen child and the existence of Israel are the focus of the 79th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (pdf, 567kB) of March 26, 2014, accessed on June 25, 2014
- ↑ National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013 on bookcritics.org blog of March 13, 2014, accessed June 25, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marra, Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |