Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger (born February 6, 1949 in New York City ) is an American writer , essayist , translator and editor .

Weinberger became known to a wider audience in German-speaking countries through the world wide reading of the international literature festival berlin , in which his 2006 essay What I heard from Iraq was on the program.

He translated the works of Octavio Paz (1914–1998) and Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948) into English.

In 1992 he was awarded the PEN / Kolovakos Award. In 2000 he became the first North American writer to receive the Order of the Aztec Eagle .

Works (selection)

English

• Works on paper . New Directions, New York 1986
• Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei . Moyer-Bell (Wakefield, RI), 1987
  • Expand Ed .: New Directions, New York 2016
• Outside Stories . New Directions, New York 1992
• Written Reaction: Poetics, Politics, Polemics . Marsilio Publishing, 1996
• Karmic Traces . New Directions, New York 2000
• What I Heard About Iraq . Verso (London), 2005
• The Stars (with Vija Celmins ). Museum of Modern Art 2005
• What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles . New Directions, New York 2005; Verso, London 2006
• Muhammad . Verso, New York, London 2006
• To Elemental Thing . New Directions, New York 2007
• Oranges and Peanuts for Sale . New Directions, New York 2009
• Wildlife . Giramondo, Sydney 2012
• Two American Scenes, with Lydia Davis . New Directions, New York 2013
• The Wall, the City, and the World . Readux, Berlin 2014
• The Ghosts of Birds . New Directions, New York 2016

German

• Übers. Peter Torberg : Cascades. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003 ISBN 3-518-12295-9
• Übers. Peter Torberg: The essential (An elemental Thing). Berenberg, Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-937834-29-0
• Übers. Peter Torberg: Oranges! Peanuts! (Oranges & peanuts for sale). Berenberg, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-937834-47-4
• Translated by Beatrice Faßbender: Vogelgeister (The ghosts of birds, selection). Klaus Bittner, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-926397188 (bilingual German / English, 44 pages);
  • Complete edition Berenberg, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-946334-22-4 (138 pages)
• Over Beatrice Fassbender. To consider 19 kinds Wang Wei (Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei). Berenberg, Berlin 2019 ISBN 978-3-946334-58-3
• Ed. Beatrice Faßbender, translator Beatrice Faßbender, Eike Schönfeld , Peter Torberg: Recently in America . Berenberg 2020 ISBN 978-3-946334-69-9

Editor, author of a foreword

• Elsewhere. Open letter. Rochester 2013 ISBN 978-1-934824-85-6
• Jeffrey Yang, translator Beatrice Faßbender: An aquarium. Poems. Vorw. Weinberger (bilingual English / German)

Web links

• Literature by and about Eliot Weinberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• David Hugendick: Eliot Weinberger: Almost a magician. In: Die Zeit, February 9, 2009
• Eliot Weinberger: Damn right, I said. The memoirs of George W. Bush. In: Le Monde diplomatique . April 8th 2011, accessed 8 June 2011 (detailed book review of the autobiography of George W. Bush: Decision Points ). 

supporting documents

1. ^ Full text , first Le Monde diplomatique , 68, spring 2005