Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman (born June 7, 1977 in New York City , USA ) is an American university professor and author .
Life
Batuman is the daughter of Turkish parents and grew up in New Jersey . She graduated from Harvard College in 2007, but had previously written for various magazines such as The New Yorker , Harper's Magazine and n + 1 .
Batumans doctorate in the subject Comparative Literature at Stanford University in California was titled The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel (German: The windmill and the giant: Double-entry bookkeeping in the novel ), and treated the ratio of the process of social research and the inventiveness of novelists. During her graduate studies, she studied the Uzbek language for some time in Samarkand in Uzbekistan . She was a professor at Stanford University until 2010.
Batuman's first book, The Possessed, was based on previously published journal articles and was published in 2010. In 2013 she was a juror for the Man Booker International Prize . She then lived in Istanbul until 2013 , wrote for the New Yorker and was Writer in Residence at the local Koç University .
Awards and honors
- 2007: Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, in the Nonfiction Department.
- 2010: Whiting Writers' Award, in the same department.
- 2010: Finalist with The Possessed at the National Book Critics Circle Award .
- 2011: Shortlist with the same book at the Guardian First Book Award .
Publications
- Books
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The Possessed. Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York City 2010, ISBN 978-0-374-53218-5 .
- German by Renate Orth-Guttmann : The possessed , Roman. No and no, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5604-6 .
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The idiot . Penguin Press, New York City 2017, ISBN 978-1-910702697 .
- German by Eva Kemper : Die Idiotin , Roman. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-004002-2 .
- items
- Department of Archeology: The Sanctuary in: The New Yorker on December 19 and 26, 2011 via Göbekli Tepe in eastern Turkey.
Web links
- Website of the author (en.)
- Koç University, Istanbul (en.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mustaches in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from November 10, 2013, page 45, about your collaboration with the Turkish artist Sibel Horada
- ↑ E-Mail for you in FAZ from October 7, 2017, page L 16
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Batuman, Elif |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist, professor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7th 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , United States |