David Guterson

David Guterson in April 2013

David Guterson (born May 4, 1956 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American writer . The son of a criminal defense attorney also worked as an English teacher and journalist for Sports Illustrated and Harper's Magazine .

Guterson made his breakthrough in 1994 with his first novel Snow Falling on Cedars , for which he received the PEN / Faulkner Award and the Swedish Crime Prize , and became known worldwide. The novel was 1999 by Scott Hicks with Ethan Hawke , Sam Shepard , Max von Sydow and Youki Kudoh in the lead roles filmed .

David Guterson lives with his family on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound west of Seattle.

Guterson is a founding member of the Field's End writers' organization .

Works

• The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind. Stories. 1989. (German. The land in front of us, the land behind us. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-442-76002-X )
• Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. 1992
• Snow Falling on Cedars. 1994. (German snow falling on cedars . Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-8333-0434-0 )
• The Drowned Son. 1996.
• East of the Mountains. 1998. (German East of the Mountains. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-442-45411-5 ; paperback at dtv, German by Susanne Höbel, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-42314508-4 )
• Our Lady of the Forest. 2003 (German Our Lady of the Forest. Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-73479-7 )
• The Other. 2008. (Ger. The Other. Hoffmann and Campe, 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40378-7 )
• Ed King. 2011 (German Ed King. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-40362-6 )
• Problems With People. Stories. 2014 (German. Between People. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-40481-4 )

Prizes and awards

• 1995 - PEN / Faulkner Award
• 1996 - Swedish Crime Award
• 2011 - Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Web links

Commons : David Guterson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about David Guterson in the catalog of the German National Library
• David Guterson in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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