Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner

Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979 in Topeka , Kansas ) is an American writer.

Life

Lerner's parents, Harriet and Steve Lerner, work as family therapists in the American provinces. He attended Topeka High School and graduated from Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science and an MFA in Poetry.

In 2003, a Fulbright scholarship took him to Madrid . Lerner is Professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York . In 2011 he won the City of Münster Prize for International Poetry .

Lerner's first work were 52 sonnets, which appeared under the title The Lichtenberg figures . The critic James Wood and the author Jonathan Franzen praised his first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station , for which he received the Believer Book Award . In 2015 Lerner received a MacArthur Fellowship .

Works (selection)

• The Lichtenberg figures . Port Townsend, Washington, USA. : Copper Canyon Press, 2004, ISBN 1-55659-211-6 . (see also: Lichtenberg figure )
  • The Lichtenberg figures . Translated from the English by Steffen Popp . Lux, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-939557-42-5 .
• Mean Free Path . Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington, USA 2010, ISBN 978-1-55659-314-7 .
• Leaving the Atocha Station. a novel. Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 2011, ISBN 978-1-56689-292-6 .
  • Farewell to Atocha . Translated from the English by Nikolaus Stingl . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-03941-7 .
• 10:04 . New York, USA. : Faber and Faber, 2014. ISBN 978-0-86547-810-7
  • 22:04 . Translated from the English by Nikolaus Stingl . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-03943-1 .
• Snow over Venice , with Alexander Kluge , 2018, ISBN 978-3-95905-253-5

Web links

Commons : Ben Lerner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ben Lerner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ben Lerner in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Ben Lerner in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City honors Ben Lerner (USA) and his German translator Steffen Popp , at City of Münster, April 3, 2011.
2. ↑ Hannes Stein : "How deep have I sunk" , Interview, in: Die Literäre Welt , January 16, 2016, p. 4
3. ↑ Ben Lerner, 36, living in New York City , NPR September 29, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018