David Sedaris

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David Sedaris at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018
David Sedaris (June 2008)
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David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956 in Binghamton ) is a humorous American author, essayist and radio staff. Much of his joke is autobiographical and relates to his large family, Greek heritage, various jobs, upbringing and relationships, substance abuse, homosexuality, and his life as an expatriate in France with his partner Hugh.

General

Sedaris grew up in Raleigh and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago . In his youth and his twenties, he tried his hand at performance art , the lack of success of which he processed in some stories. Sedaris suffered from mild Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder in his youth ; He also addresses this in one of his short stories.

After many odd jobs in Raleigh, Chicago and New York , he first gained attention with his radio essay The Santaland Diaries , in which he his experience as elves performer in the department store Macy's describes around Christmas time in New York. This piece first went on air in 1992, and in 1996 in Great Britain.

His first book Fuselfieber is a collection of essays and short stories. Other publications of his essays are Nude and I Speak Pretty One Day . Several of his books, including Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (German: Nachtprogramm ) climbed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list . In 2001, TIME magazine named him “Humorist of the Year” and he received the James Thurber Award for American Humor.

Sedaris also writes for the theater and wrote various plays with his sister, the actress Amy Sedaris , under the name "The Talent Family".

He currently lives with his friend, the painter and set designer Hugh Hamrick, in Paris , in a country house in Normandy and in London . He writes for The New York Times , The New Yorker and Esquire , among others .

reception

One of his translators, Harry Rowohlt , criticized the nude :

“Besides the fact that he cannot write, he has an additional quirk, by which you can unmistakably recognize that someone has a quirk and cannot write: If he has ever grown fond of a verb, a completely unsuspicious verb, to approach z. B., he uses it once, two sentences later, then again on the next page, and then, thank God, he forgot it again. And then it comes to frame . "

However, Rowohlt also translated Fuselfieber and I speak pretty a day and read the audio books from Holidays on Ice and I speak pretty one day .

A number of German critics praised the humor and wit in Serdar's publications, including Manfred Papst ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ), Andrea Neuhaus ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), Helmut Mauró and Merten Worthmann ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ).

Awards

Works

Original editions

In German translation

  • Holidays on Ice . From the American by Harry Rowohlt. Haffmans, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-251-00455-7 .
  • Naked . From the American by Harry Rowohlt. Haffmans, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-453-87319-X .
  • Fever . From the American by Harry Rowohlt. Haffmans, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-251-00466-2 .
  • I speak pretty one day . From the American by Harry Rowohlt. Haffmans, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-251-00497-2 .
  • Dog life . Diana, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-8284-0074-4 . (Eighteen poems about dogs, retouched by Harry Rowohlt)
  • Night program . German by Georg Deggerich. Heyne, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-00079-X .
  • Good nude stories . Gerd Haffmans at Zweiausendundeins, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-86150-560-6 . ("Naked" and "I speak pretty one day" in one tape)
  • It doesn't get any nicer . German by Georg Deggerich. Blessing, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89667-385-5 .
  • Life is not a petting zoo: nasty fables . German by Georg Deggerich. Blessing, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89667-444-9 .
  • Let's talk about owls - and diabetes . German by Georg Deggerich. Blessing, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-89667-506-4 .
  • Whoever finds it, owns it. Me and my diaries . German by Georg Deggerich. Blessing, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-89667-574-3 .
  • Calypso . German by Georg Deggerich. Blessing, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-89667-635-1 .

Trivia

In episode 20 of season 16 of the TV series The Simpsons , titled "Look Homeward Flanders", Lisa listens to a radio show titled "Tea Chatting with Amy Lavigne Gonzales". The broadcast announced that David Sedaris was taking "an oblique look at America's overcrowded prisons".
The beetle species Darwinilus sedarisi , which has a strikingly metallic-green upper body, was named in February 2014 after Charles Darwin, who found it in September 1832 during his trip with the HMS Beagle in Bahía Blanca (Argentina), and David Sedaris.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Preston: "Sedaris suffered from a compulsion to lick light switches throughout his adolescence. He did, however, eventually grow out of it - that's the good news. Unfortunately he then became a crystal meth addict." - [www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8583675/David-Sedaris-what-other-people-call-dark-and-despairing-I-call-funny.html Telegraph] June 18, 2011; Zeit Magazin 2018
  2. ↑ "A Plague of Tics" (Eng. "Die Mackenplage") from the volume "Naked"
  3. ↑ Joachim Kronsbein: Life is a gas stove . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 2008, p. 182 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Harry Rowohlt: The fight continues. Zurich 2005, p. 267
  5. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/david-sedaris/fuselfieber.html
  6. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/david-sedaris/ich-ein-tag-rechen-huebsch.html
  7. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/david-sedaris/gute-nackt-geschichten.html
  8. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/david-sedaris/holidays-on-ice.html
  9. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/david-sedaris/schoener-wird-s-nicht.html
  10. ↑ https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/david-sedaris
  11. ↑ a b c d https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/david-sedaris , Grammy.com
  12. ↑ https://www.biography.com/people/david-sedaris-39460
  13. ↑ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/07/isabella-hammad-wins-2018-plimpton-prize-david-sedaris-wins-terry-southern-prize/ , The Paris Review, March 7 , 2018
  14. ↑ https://www.oberlin.edu/commencement/speakers/david-sedaris
  15. ↑ Newly elected members 2019. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sedaris, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Binghamton