Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born April 16, 1960 on Long Island , New York ) is an American journalist , translator and author .
Mendelsohn studied at the University of Virginia and Princeton University . He received his doctorate in 1994. He has worked as a critic for The New York Review of Books , New York Magazine , The New Yorker and The New York Times, among others . His first book was published in 1999 with the title The Elusive Embrace. He has translated the poems of Konstantinos Kavafis into English. Mendelsohn is openly gay .
Prizes and awards
Mendelsohn's books have won numerous awards, including the Duff Cooper Prize , the Prix Médicis, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2000, 2006, and 2012 .
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2006 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.
Works
- The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity , Knopf, New York 1999.
- Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays , 2002, Oxford University Press.
- How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken. Essays. New York: Harper
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million , 2006. ISBN 0-06-054299-3 . (English; also French: Les Disparus , from Flammarion , 2007) awarded the Prix Medicis
- The lost ones. A search for six out of six million . Translated by Eike Schönfeld . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010. ISBN 978-3-462-04182-8 .
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic , Knopf, New York 2017. ISBN 0385350597 .
- An odyssey: my father, an epic and me . Translated by Matthias Fienbork. Siedler, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-8275-0063-2 .
- Translations
- CP Cavafy . Collected poems
- CP Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems . Vintage Books 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ RandomHouse: Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn
- ↑ Member History: Daniel Mendelsohn. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 2, 2019 (with biographical notes).
Web links
- Literature by and about Daniel Mendelsohn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage , (English)
- “Jewish Detective Stories” , interview with Daniel Mendelsohn and Michael Chabon, Julie Phillips, Amsterdam, September 19, 2007, English
- Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn , Yad Vashem (en)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mendelsohn, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | long Island |