Colum McCann

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Colum McCann (2007)

Colum McCann (born February 28, 1965 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer , journalist and screenwriter .

Life

McCann studied journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology and worked as a reporter for a while before moving to the United States, where he worked in various professions, married in 1992 and moved to Japan for a year and a half . In 1994 he published his first collection of short stories, which was created there and was immediately very successful. This writer has a philanthropic personality. He is co-founder and long-time President / CEO of Narrative 4 , a non-profit organization that was established in 2012 and is now active around the world for the introduction of young people to their own writing and storytelling. He previously served at PEN America, the American Ireland Fund, the New York Public Library , the Norman Mailer Colony, and the creative writing center called Fighting Words , which Roddy Doyle started . His novels and biographies deal more with excerpts of reality than with fictions, but these are deepened by illuminating the most varied of facets. So in Der Tänzer (2003) about Rudolf Nurejew , so in TransAtlantic (2013) about the first transatlantic pilots Alcock and Brown , so in Let the Great World Spin (2009) about the tightrope walker Philippe Petit . The documentary novel Apeirogon , which was published in the original English language as well as in German translation in 2020, is about two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who both lost a child in the Middle East conflict, but want to forego revenge for a deeper understanding. The title is a term from geometry, denotes a structure with countable facets, but the number of which tends towards infinity.

He has lived in New York with his wife and their three children since 1996 .

Works

Novels

stories

  • Fishing the Sloe-Black River (1994)
    • Fishing in the deep black river, translated from English by Matthias Müller, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt 1998. ISBN 3-498-04379-X .
  • Everything in this Country Must (2000)
    • Like everything in this country, from the English by Dirk van Gunsteren and Matthias Müller, Reinbek near Hamburg, Rowohlt 2001. ISBN 3-498-04475-3 .
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking: A Novella and Three Stories (2016)
    • What time is it now where you are Three stories and a novella, translated from English by Dirk van Gunsteren, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt 2017. ISBN 3-498-04532-6 .

Non-fiction

  • Letters to a Young Writer . Some Practical and Philosophical Advice (2017)
    • Letters to young authors. With practical and philosophical advice, translated from English by Thomas Überhoff, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt 2017. ISBN 3-499-29140-1 .

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Let the Great World Tell Stories: Colum McCann and Esquire Celebrate Narrative 4 Launch , The Observer, June 2013, accessed July 21, 2020
  2. ↑ Sylvia Staude: Colum McCann: "Apeirogon" - flocks of birds in the head , review in the Frankfurter Rundschau from July 20, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020
  3. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME McCann, Colum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin