Ben Fountain

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Ben Fountain during the Texas Book Festival in 2012.

Ben Fountain (* 1958 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) is an American writer. He has won a number of awards including the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for the short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories and the National Book Critics Circle Award for the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk .

life and work

Fountain grew up in Elizabeth City in eastern North Carolina . When he was thirteen, his family moved to Cary, near North Carolina's capital city of Raleigh. In 1980 he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in English Literature and then studied law at Duke University School of Law, where he graduated in 1983. He practiced for a short time in a large Dallas law firm, but quit in 1988 to work as a freelance writer. He currently resides in Dallas , Texas with his family .

His short story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara in 2006 (dt. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara , 2015) won a number of awards. Some of his stories were included in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (2006).

Fountains first novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (dt. The crazy heroes tour of Billy Lynn , 2013) was released in May 2012. 2015 was this novel by the BBC's selection of the best 20 novels from 2000 to 2014 to one of the far most important works of this century elected. Simon Beaufoy , who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire , developed a screenplay based on the novel, which was filmed under the direction of Oscar winner Ang Lee . The film premiered on October 14, 2016 in the USA and will open in Germany on February 2, 2017.

Awards and nominations

Publications

Single receipts

  1. ^ "Ben Fountain," Barnes & Noble biography
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) "Late Bloomers," Malcolm Gladwell, October 20, 2008
  3. ↑ a b Ben Fountain interview . In: Texas Monthly , February 2008. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008. 
  4. ↑ a b Ask the Author . In: D Magazine , February 2010. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. 
  5. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/14/billy-flynn-long-halftime-walk-adalt-film4
  6. ↑ http://blog.sfgate.com/bookmarks/2014/09/19/ang-lee-to-direct-ben-fountains-billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk/
  7. ↑ Texas Institute of Letters Awards . Texas Institute of Letters. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  8. ^ Bill Henderson (Ed.): The Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2004 Edition . Pushcart Press, 2004.
  9. ^ The Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories: Past Winners List . Randomhouse.com. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  10. ↑ a b Ben Fountain: About the Author . HarperCollins. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  11. ↑ Michael Merschel: Dallas Author Ben Fountain Wins Whiting Award . In: Dallas Morning News , October 25, 2007. 
  12. ^ National Book Award Finalists Announced Today . In: Library Journal . October 10, 2012. Archived from the original on December 6, 2012. Retrieved on November 15, 2012.
  13. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-fiction-books-2012#74617-Best-Fiction
  15. ↑ a b http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130228/us-books-critics-prizes/
  16. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-book-award-20130420,0,5547443.story
  17. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Meredith Moss: 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced . In: Dayton Daily News . September 24, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  19. ^ Ron Charles : Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" . In: Washington Post . May 15, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Fountain, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Chapel Hill, North Carolina