Donald Ray Pollock

Donald Ray Pollock, 2019

Donald Ray Pollock (born December 23, 1954 in Knockemstiff (Ohio) ( Ross County )) is an American writer.

Life

Pollock grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio, now a ghost town , and lived all of his adult life in Chillicothe . At 17 he dropped out of school and worked first in a slaughterhouse , then in the local paper mill and as a truck driver.

At 45, Pollock began writing a short story called Bactine and submitted it for publication in The Journal , the literary magazine of the Ohio State University's Department of English Literature . One of the editors was so impressed with the story that she persuaded Pollock to join the university's creative writing program in 2005 .

In 2008 Doubleday published his collection of short stories called Knockemstiff , and the New York Times regularly published his election reports from South Ohio during the 2008 US presidential election . His work has appeared in various literary magazines including Epoch , Sou'wester , Granta , Third Coast , River Styx , The Journal , Boulevard and PEN America .

Prizes and awards

In 2009 Pollock received the Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Devil's Kitchen Award for Prose from Southern Illinois University Carbondale . His second book, The Devil All The Time led Publishers Weekly as one of ten books of the year 2011. The French edition was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix de littérature policière and the Prix Mystère de la critique excellent. In 2013, The Devil's Crafts won a German Crime Prize (3rd place in the International Crime) and in 2017 Die himmlische Tafel reached 1st place in the German Crime Prize (International).

Works

• Knockemstiff . Doubleday Booksg, New York 2008.
  • Knockemstiff. (German by Peter Torberg ), Liebeskind, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-95438-014-5 .
  • Knockemstiff. (German by Peter Torberg, paperback), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-67678-7 .
• The Devil All The Time. Novel. 2011.
  • The devil's craft . (German by Peter Torberg), Liebeskind, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-935890-85-4 .
  • The devil's craft. (German by Peter Torberg, paperback), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-43692-3 .
• The Heavenly Table. Novel. 2016.
  • The heavenly table . (German by Peter Torberg), Liebeskind, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95438-065-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Donald Ray Pollock in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official Web Site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Boie: In the middle of ... Knockenstiff. Sueddeutsche Zeitung, May 3, 2014, accessed May 5, 2014 . 
2. ^ Donald Ray Pollock On Finding Fiction Late In Life. NPR, July 26, 2011, accessed February 29, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Eric Fortune: From Winesburg, Ohio to Knockemstiff. Retrieved June 16, 2015.
4. ^ Archives of the NYT
5. ↑ Choire Sicha: Donald Ray Pollock's underdog story. Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2008, accessed May 20, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Richard Poskozim: OSU student wins coveted Robert Bingham Fellowship. (No longer available online.) The Lantern, May 20, 2009, archived from the original on September 6, 2009 ; Retrieved May 20, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.