Claire Vaye Watkins
Claire Vaye Watkins (born 1984 in Bishop , California ) is an American writer.
Life
Claire Vaye Watkins grew up in Tecopa and Pahrump in the Mojave Desert . Her father Paul Watkins was a musician and was part of the Manson Family for a time . She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno (BA) and received a Masters of Fine Arts from Ohio State University . She teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan . She writes essays and short stories that she has published in Granta , Tin House , The Paris Review , One Story, Glimmer Train, Best of the West, Best of the Southwest and in the New York Times . A selection of ten stories was published in 2012 under the title Battleborn and has received several awards, including the Dylan Thomas Prize for 2013. In 2018 Watkins was the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction .
Works
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Battleborn . New York: Riverhead Books, 2012
- Ghosts, cowboys stories . Translation of Dirk van Gunsteren . Ullstein, Berlin 2012
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Gold Fame Citrus . Penguin, 2015, ISBN 978-0-698-19594-3 .
- Gold glory citrus . Novel. Translation by Susanne Höbel. Ullstein, Berlin 2016
literature
- Jonathan Lee : Desert oasis . Review, in: Financial Times , February 6, 2016, p. 10
- Sabine Vogel: Flight into Enlightenment , Review, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 22, 2016, p. 36
Web links
- Literature by and about Claire Vaye Watkins in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Claire Vaye Watkins in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Claire Vaye Watkins at perlentaucher.de
- Claire Vaye Watkins , website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claire Vaye Watkins - 2018 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction , accessed October 9, 2019
- ^ Literature by and about Jonathan Lee in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watkins, Claire Vaye |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bishop (California) |