Carl Hiaasen

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Carl Hiaasen ( IPA : ['haɪjəsɛn] ; born March 12, 1953 in Plantation , Florida ) is an American journalist and writer with Norwegian ancestors.

Life

Carl Hiaasen was born in the town of Plantation near Fort Lauderdale to the lawyer Odel and the teacher Patricia. There he also spent the first years of his life.

After graduating from high school, he married Connie Lyford and enrolled at Emory University in 1970 . He moved to the University of Florida in 1972 and graduated with a degree in journalism in 1974. After two years as a reporter for Cocoa Today in Cocoa , Florida, Hiaasen moved to the Miami Herald in 1976 , where he still works today.

He turned to investigative journalism in 1979 , focusing on construction and real estate development, and uncovering for-profit practices that destroyed the natural beauty of Florida. He has had a column in the Miami Herald since 1985, initially every three weeks and now weekly.

On the side, he began a career as a writer in the 1980s. He was the co-author of three thrillers by his journalist friend Bill Montalbano ( Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1981), A Death in China (1986)). After Montalbano became a foreign correspondent, Hiaasen wrote his first book Tourist Season in 1986 , which introduced many of his distinctive style elements and themes.

Hiaasen's books reflect his interests as a journalist and a Florida resident. His novels have been classified as environmental thrillers, although they can also be viewed as mainstream satires of contemporary life. In his novels, Florida is the land of greedy businesspeople, corrupt politicians, stupid blondes, apathetic retirees, intellectually overwhelmed tourists and militant environmentalists, but also the land of John D. MacDonalds and Travis McGees , albeit 20 years later and from a more ironic and malicious point of view .

The critics complain that Hiaasen's work essentially consists of the penetrating repetition of the same content with different characters. In fact, the plots of the novels follow a repetitive pattern. Wonderful areas of Florida are threatened by white-collar criminals and are being saved by enigmatic heroes. Nevertheless, the amazing diversity and the peculiarities of the characters always ensure the credibility of the plot.

The marriage to Connie Lyford was divorced in 1996. Hiaasen married the restaurant manager Fenia Clizer in 1999. He has a son from his first marriage and another from his second marriage.

bibliography

Fiction for adults

  • Powder Burn (1981) with William D. Montalbano
  • Trap Line (1982) with William D. Montalbano
  • A Death in China (1984) with William D. Montalbano (Eng .: Death in China)
  • Tourist Season (1986) (German: Miami Terror)
  • Double Whammy (1987) (German: Miami Murders / Big Fish)
  • Skin Tight (1989) (Eng .: under the skin)
  • Native Tongue (1991) (German: large animals)
  • Strip Tease (1993) (Eng .: night club / striptease) (filmed in 1996 as a striptease by Andrew Bergman , with Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds )
  • Stormy Weather (1995) (German: Stormy Times)
  • Naked Came the Manatee ( chain novel with Dave Barry , Les Standiford, Paul Levine, Edna Buchanan , James W. Hall, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, Tananarive Due, Brian Antoni, Vicki Hendricks, John Dufresne and Elmore Leonard , 1996)
  • Lucky You (1997) (German: Die Glücksfee)
  • Sick Puppy (2000) (German: crooked dogs)
  • Basket Case (2002) (German: Last Legacy)
  • Skinny Dip (2004)
  • Nature Girl (2006) (Eng .: marsh flowers)
  • Star Island (2010) (German: starry sky)
  • Bad Monkey (2013) (German monkey theater)
  • Razor Girl (2016)

Fiction for young readers

  • Hoot (2002) (German: Owls ) (filmed in 2006 as Hoot by Wil Shriner, with Robert Wagner and songs by Jimmy Buffett )
  • Flush (2005) (German: fat fish )
  • Scat (2009) (German: Panther)
  • Chomp (2012) (German: real beasts)
  • Skink - No Surrender (2014) (German: one-eyed lizard)
  • Squirm (2018) (German: snake hunt )

Non-fiction

  • Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World (1998)
  • Kick Ass (1999) (Columns)
  • Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns (2001) (Columns)
  • The Downhill Lie (2008)
  • Dance of the Reptiles (2014) (Columns)
  • Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear (2018)

Eragon

In spring 2002, Carl Hiaasen's attention was drawn to the book Eragon , which was self-published by the Paolini family. Hiaasen obtained permission from the family to present the book to his publisher Alfred A. Knopf. He then bought the rights to Eragon.

Awards

In 1992 Hiaasen was awarded the Dilys Award from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) for the novel Native Tongue (Eng .: Big Animals ). The juvenile thriller Eulen won a Newbery Honor from the Association for Library Service to Children and in 2005 the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award. In 2006 he received the Agatha Award for the juvenile crime thriller Flush (Eng .: fat fish).

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personal data
SURNAME Hiaasen, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Plantation (Broward County, Florida)