Deborah Eisenberg

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Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945 , Winnetka , Illinois ) is an American writer .

biography

Eisenberg grew up in a suburb of Chicago , and went in the late 1960s to New York to attend the University of The New School to study Latin, Greek and anthropology. In New York she met her future partner, the author and actor Wallace Shawn . Since the early 1980s she made extensive trips to Nicaragua , Honduras and Guatemala , which had a strong influence on her literary work. Since 1986 Eisenberg has published four volumes of short stories. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia and writes for magazines such as The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books . She has lived in New York City for decades.

Awards

They have received literary prizes several times. After the publication of her first work Transactions in a Foreign Currency , she received the Whiting Writers' Award and a Guggenheim grant in 1987 . In 2000 she received the Rea Award for the Short Story . In the explanation, her compassionate and surgically precise, elegant and caustic manner was praised, with which she reveals the background of normal reality. In addition to other honors, Eisenberg was awarded the O. Henry Prize several times , including 1st place in 2006. In 2009 she became a MacArthur Fellow . In 2011 she received the PEN / Faulkner Award , in 2007 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2018 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

  • 1986 - Transactions in a Foreign Currency (German: Traveling with light luggage , 1989)
  • 1992 - Under the 82nd Airborne (Eng. In Paradise of the Rain God , 1993)
  • 1997 - All Around Atlantis (dt. Rosie gets a soul , 2000)
  • 2006 - Twilight of the Superheroes (German Revenge of the Dinosaurs , 2008)
  • 2010 - The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg . Picardo / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City, USA, ISBN 978-0-312-42989-8 .
  • 2018 - Your Duck Is My Duck

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deborah Eisenberg in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on December 17, 2018 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ^ List of the Whiting Writers' Award Winners ( Memento of February 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Deborah Eisenberg. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .
  4. ^ Rationale for the Rea Award ( Memento from February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Eisenberg, Deborah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1945