Elizabeth Rosner

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Elizabeth J. Rosner also Elisabeth J. Rosner (born December 31, 1959 in Schenectady , New York ) is an American writer .

Life

Elizabeth Rosner is the daughter of the Jewish Buchenwald prisoner Carl H. Rosner from Hamburg and Frieda Z. Rosner, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust , who both emigrated to the USA after their liberation. Growing up in Schenectady, she studied at Stanford University , the University of California, Irvine , where she received an MA , and the University of Queensland in Australia. After that she worked as a teacher.

In her master's thesis in 1984, Rosner already addressed the topic of dealing with the past for the part of her generation who had to deal with the traumatization of parents by the Holocaust in the family history .

Rosner has essays in the magazine of the New York Times , in the yard and in the Forward published, and contributions from it were included in anthologies.

Awards

Works

  • Secrets in the family. Thesis (MFA, English). University of California, Irvine, 1984
  • Gravity. Small Poetry Press, Concord (CA) 1998
  • The Speed ​​of Light. Ballantine Books, 2001
    • The speed of light. Novel. German by Eva L. Wahser. Knaus, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8135-0211-2
  • Blue nude: a novel. Ballantine Books, New York 2006
    • The Blue Nude , Dt. by Brunhild Fölsch and Walter Grünzweig, Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 2020, ISBN 978-3-95565-381-1

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SURNAME Rosner, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosner, Elizabeth J .; Rosner, Elisabeth J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenectady , New York