Claire Messud

Claire Messud at the Brooklyn Book Festival, September 2009

Claire Messud (* 1966 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) is an American writer.

Life

Messud comes from a Canadian-French family, the mother is Canadian, the father French of Algerian origin; she grew up in the United States, Canada and Australia , attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and then studied at Yale University and Cambridge University , where she met her husband.

Claire Messud published her first novel in 1995 and had a worldwide success with the city novel The Emperor's Children . She teaches at various American colleges and is married to the British literary critic James Wood ; the couple have two children and live in Washington, DC and Somerville , Massachusetts .

Works

• 1995 When The World Was Steady (novel)
• 1999 The Last Life (novel)
  • And in between the sea, from Christiane Filius-Jehne; Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch 2001. ISBN 3-462-02976-2

• 2001 The Hunters (contains the two short novels A Simple Tale and The Hunters )
  • Family Jäger, German by Dora Winkler; Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2004. ISBN 3-421-05681-1

• 2006 The Emperor's Children (novel)
  • The emperor's children, German by Sabine Hübner. Munich: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 2007. ISBN 3-421-04204-7 .

• 2013 The Woman Upstairs
• 2017 The Burning Girl ( novel)
  • The Burning Girl, German by Monika Baark, Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 2018, ISBN 978-3455003925 .

Reviews

Comments on the latest novel The Burning Girl :

"It testifies to Messud's literary subtlety and empathy, as she describes the two friends, who come from very different family constellations, in their joint search for support and fusion."

- Peter Henning : Spiegel online

"Well told, atmospheric, exciting and emotional, without being sentimental."

- femundo.de

Awards

• 1995 When The World Was Steady nominated for the PEN / Faulkner Award .
• 2002 Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2003 Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2006 The Emperor's Children nominated for the Booker Prize
• 2010/11 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin

literature

• Claire Messud: Too close for comfort . Review of the work of Elena Ferrante . In: Financial Times , August 29, 2015, p. 7

Web links

Commons : Claire Messud  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Claire Messud in the catalog of the German National Library
• Articles and reviews by Claire Messud in the Archives of the New York Review of Books
• Articles and reviews by Claire Messud in The Nation archives
• Portrait in the New York Times, September 6, 2006 (English)
• Portrait in the Guardian, August 20, 2006 (English)
• Claire Messud talks about The Emperor's Children (video / english)
• autobiographical essay by Claire Messud for Smithsonian Magazine, April 2008
• Claire Messud's review of JM Coetzee's novel Diary of a Bad Year for the Boston Globe, December 30, 2007
• Claire Messud on her experiences at the Palestine Festival of Literature 2009 (in the Boston Globe, June 29, 2009)
• Claire Messud reads her story Land Divers from the New York Review of Books, July 16, 2009 (mp3 / English; 23.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The summers when we lost each other. Spiegel online, August 19, 2018, accessed May 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Everyone loses a best friend at some point. femundo.de, February 2, 2018, accessed on May 2, 2019 .