Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn (born January 14, 1960 in Cornwall ) is a British journalist and novelist. St Aubyn became internationally known for its "Patrick Melrose" trilogy Some Hope and for Mother's Milk's nomination for the 2006 Booker Prize.

Life

St Aubyn was born in 1960 into one of the most famous families of the English nobility. He had a difficult childhood; up to the age of eight he was physically and sexually abused by his father, while his mother was engaged in 'charity' outside the family. St Aubyn grew up in England and the South of France. He attended Westminster School , one of the leading British boys' schools, connected to the Westminster Abbey and the Keble College of the University of Oxford . St Aubyn became a drug addict at school.

The experience in his family make up the content and background of his autobiographical certain Some Hope - trilogy , the intrigues in the St Aubyn with sarcasm and corrosive refrigerant in a British upper class portrays family. Never Mind is about the violent childhood of the protagonist ; the second volume of the trilogy, Bad News , in which Patrick Melrose picks up his father's ashes from New York , is marked by heroin addiction and suicidal moments. St Aubyn concluded the trilogy with Some Hope in 1994, but added a band in 2011 with At Last , which plays during Melrose's mother's funeral.

St Aubyn's sixth novel, Mother's Milk , takes up the character of Patrick Melrose again and now shows him as a father of a family with two young sons, whom he tries to spare his own childhood experiences. In 2006, Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize , the most prestigious English-language literary prize , and was published in German in 2009 under the title Muttermilch . In 2015, The Patrick Melrose Novels were selected by 82 international literary critics and scholars in the BBC's 100 Greatest British Novels picks, and in 2018 the Patrick Melrose series starring Benedict Cumberbatch was filmed as a five-part miniseries .

St Aubyn is the father of two children and lives in Notting Hill , London. His novels are also available in German.

Awards

• 2007 - Prix ​​Femina Étranger for Le goût de la mère
• 2007 - South Bank Literature Award for Mother's Milk
• 2014 - Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Lost for Words

Works

• Never Mind , William Heinemann, London 1992 ISBN 0-434-73452-7 ; German beautiful conditions , translator Ingo Herzke , DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2007 ISBN 978-3-8321-8012-6
• Bad News , William Heinemann, London 1992, ISBN 0-434-73453-5 ; German Bad News , translator Frank Wegner, DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-8025-6
• Some Hope , William Heinemann, London 1994 ISBN 0-434-73454-3 ; German Nice Outlook , translator Dirk van Gunsteren , DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-8024-9
• On The Edge , Chatto and Windus, London 1998 ISBN 0-7011-6725-4 ; German Am Abgrund , translator Sabine Hübner, Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05541-3
• A Clue to the Exit , Chatto and Windus, London 2000, ISBN 0-7011-6960-5 ; German way out , transl. Dirk van Gunsteren, DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-8080-5
• Mother's Milk , Picador, London 2006 ISBN 0-330-43589-2 ; German mother's milk , transl. Dirk van Gunsteren, DuMont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-8023-2
• At Last , Picador, London 2011 ISBN 0-330-43590-6 ; German Last but not least , translator Sabine Hübner, Piper, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-4920-5434-8 .
• Lost for Words . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-374280291 ; German The best novel of the year , transl. Nikolaus Hansen , Piper, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-05435-5
• Dunbar , Hogarth, 2017; German Dunbar and his daughters , Knaus, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8135-0698-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Edward St Aubyn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Edward St. Aubyn on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
• Edward St Aubyn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• “The sins of the father” review and interview with Rachel Cooke, The Guardian , January 8, 2006 (English)
• "Cold sweat. Edward St Aubyn tells of abuse and drug intoxication in a noble British family ” , Die Zeit , November 22, 2007
• "I'm very lucky that I'm still alive" Interview with St Aubyn, Frankfurter Rundschau , September 28, 2011
• Degouting double game . Nadine Alexander on beautiful relationships , especially the translation, in ReLÜ , reviews online, 5, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "The sins of the father" , The Guardian , January 8, 2006
2. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur : “Diffuse Unrest” , September 18, 2009
3. ^ "DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag" (please search with the name of the author in the complete directory )
4. ↑ BBC News : South Bank awards honor The Who , January 23, 2007
5. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur: "On the cruelty behind the facade" , April 28, 2008