Benjamin Markovits

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Benjamin Markovits (born 1973 in Palo Alto ) is an American-British author and literary critic.

Life

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He studied literature at Yale University and Oxford University . He broke off his career as a basketball player . Markovits lives in London, works as a literary critic and writes for the New Statesman , The Observer , the London Review of Books , The Paris Review , The New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement .

He teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway , University of London.

Markovits wrote a trilogy about the life of the British poet Lord Byron , Imposture (2007) from the perspective of his doctor John Polidori , A Quiet Adjustment (2008) about his marriage to Anne Isabella Milbanke and Childish Loves (2011) about his childhood. The Syme Papers cover the life of John Cleves Symmes . The semi-autobiographical novel Playing Days sees the protagonist condemned to watch while playing basketball. The novel You don't have to live like this , published in 2015, addresses the collapse of the city of Detroit , for which Markovits received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2016 .

Works (selection)

  • A weekend in New York . London: Faber and Faber, 2018
  • You don't have to live like this: a novel . New York, NY: Harper, 2015
  • Childish Loves . New York: WW Norton, 2011
  • Playing Days: a novel . London: Faber and Faber, 2010
  • A quiet adjustment: a novel . New York: WW Norton & Co., 2008
  • Imposture . New York: WW Norton & Co., 2007
  • Fathers and daughters: a novel . New York: WW Norton & Co., 2005 [i. e. Either Side of Winter ]
    • Manhattan Love Story . Novel. From the American by Christa Krüger. Insel Verlag, 2009. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009
  • The Syme Papers: a novel . London: Faber and Faber 2004
    • Symes discovery . Novel. From the American by Christa Krüger. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005

literature

  • Jonathan Bastable, Hannah McGill (Eds.): The 21st century novel: notes from the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference . Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Markovits , at Faber
  2. ↑ Francesca Wade: Detroit dreaming , in: Financial Times , July 25, 2015, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Markovits, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-British author and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Palo Alto