Donald Antrim

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Donald Antrim (born September 16, 1958 in Sarasota , Florida ) is an American author. He began his career in 1993 with the novel Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World , which was enthusiastically received. The magazine The New Yorker noted him as one of "Twenty authors for the new millennium".

Antrim was the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow For Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin in spring 2009 . In 2013 he received a MacArthur Fellowship .

Daniel Haas (literary critic) called Antrim a "diagnosis of decline in the modern affluent society ".

Antrim lives in New York City .

Works (selection)

• Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World. 1993
  • The bombardment of the botanical garden. Edition Epoca , Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905513-14-5 .
  • Votes Mr. Robinson for a better world . Novel. Übers. Gottfried Röckelein. Rowohlt , Reinbek near Hamburg 2015 ISBN 978-3-499-27078-9
• The Hundred Brothers. 1998
  • The hundred brothers. Novel. Translation of Gottfried Röckelein. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2016 ISBN 978-3-499-27077-2
• The verificationist. 2000
  • An ego seldom comes alone. Residence, Salzburg 2001 ISBN 3-7017-1264-6
  • The truth finder . Novel. Translated by Brigitte Heinrich. Introduction George Saunders . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015 ISBN 978-3-499-27079-6
• The Afterlife: A Memoir. 2006.
  • Mother: not a novel. Translated from Nikolaus Stingl . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2006 ISBN 3-498-00069-1
  • Mother: not a novel. Translated from Nikolaus Stingl. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017 ISBN 978-3-499-29027-5
• The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories. Granta, 2014
  • The emerald light in the air. Translated from Nikolaus Stingl. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015 ISBN 978-3-498-00092-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Donald Antrim in the catalog of the German National Library
• interview

Individual evidence

1. ^ Writer Donald Antrim , NPR, September 25, 2013, accessed October 8, 2018
2. ^ Zeit Literatur, November 2015, p. 21.