Celeste Ng

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Celeste Ng (2018)

Celeste Ng [ sɪˈlest ɪŋ ] (born 1980 in Pittsburgh ) is an American writer .

Life

Celeste Ng's parents immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong . You first worked in Pittsburgh as a physicist and chemist and lived in a suburb. When Ng was ten, her parents moved to Shaker Heights , a suburb of Cleveland , also a place where the economic and social depression of the Rust Belt was felt. She has a sister eleven years older than her. Ng studied English at Harvard University (BA 2002) and creative writing at University of Michigan (Master of Fine Arts).

She won the Hopwood Award for her short story What Passes Over and the Pushcart Prize 2012 for the short story Girls, at Play . Her first novel Everything I Never Told You from 2014 became a bestseller and was Amazon Best Book of the Year . Translations have appeared in numerous languages. Her second novel Little Fires Everywhere also hit the New York Times bestseller list shortly after its publication in 2017 .

In 2020 an 8-part mini-series was published based on the novel "Little Fires Everywhere".

Ng lives with husband and son in Cambridge , Massachusetts.

Works

  • Everything I never told you . Penguin Press, New York 2014.
  • Little Fires Everywhere . Penguin Press, New York 2017.
    • Little fires everywhere. Novel . From the American English by Brigitte Jakobeit. dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28156-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celeste Ng. In: celesteng.com. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b A conversation with Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You , Interview, in the appendix to the 2015 edition of Penguin
personal data
SURNAME Ng, Celeste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh