Elizabeth Strout

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Elizabeth Strout (2014)

Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956 in Portland , Maine ) is an American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for novels for her novel Olive Kitteridge .

Life

Elizabeth Strout completed after the conclusion of Bates College and studying in Oxford to study law at Syracuse University and graduated in 1982 with honors. She also completed a degree in gerontology there and after completing her studies began writing short stories for the magazines New Letters , Redbook and Seventeen .

She published her first novel, Amy and Isabelle , in 1998 , which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best First Work in 1999 and is about a mother-daughter relationship in Massachusetts and the underage daughter's love for her math teacher. In 2001, Lloyd Kramer directed the material as a television film with Elisabeth Shue and Hanna R. Hall in the roles of 'Isabelle Goodrow' and 'Amy Goodrow' .

After her novel Abide with me (2005), she had her greatest literary success to date with Olive Kitteridge (2007). She received the Pulitzer Prize for Novels in 2009 and the Premio Bancarella for this novel about the life-affirming, Maine-based retired math teacher, Olive Kitteridge . The novel was filmed in 2014 by Lisa Cholodenko as the miniseries Olive Kitteridge with Frances McDormand in the lead role. In October 2019, Strout released a sequel entitled "Olive, Again".

In addition to her writing activities, Strout was also a lecturer in creative writing at Colgate University and the Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina .

Strout is married to James Tierney , who was Maine Attorney General from 1981 to 1991 .

Works

  • Amy and Isabelle . New York: Random House, 1999, ISBN 0-375501347 .
    • Amy & Isabelle . Translation of Margarete Längeld. Munich: Piper, 2000, ISBN 3-492-04200-7 .
  • Abide with me. A novel . New York: Random House, 2005, ISBN 1-400062071 (title based on an English hymn ).
  • Olive Kitteridge . New York: Random House, 2007, ISBN 978-1-400062089 .
  • The Burgess boys: a novel . New York: Random House, 2013
    • Life, of course . Translation by Sabine Roth and Walter Ahlers. Luchterhand, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87344-2 .
  • My name is Lucy Barton . New York: Random House, 2016
  • Anything is possible . New York: Random House, 2017
  • Olive, Again . New York: Random House, 2019

reception

The bestseller "With a View of the Sea" was received favorably by the critics in German-speaking countries. Martin Halter described the novel in the FAZ as warm-hearted, touching, wise to live, but never sentimental or unworldly. Eva Menasse praised the interwoven episodes of the book as an artful mixture of humor and tragedy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org (accessed September 2, 2014).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  2. ↑ Harvard Law School: James E. Tierney | Harvard Law School. In: harvard.edu. hls.harvard.edu, accessed April 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Erica Wagner : Fairy tale of New York , in: Financial Times , February 14, 2016, p. 11
  4. ↑ Gabriele von Arnim: “A Monster Called Ungluck” , review on deutschlandfunkkultur.de from March 18, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020
  5. ↑ Martin Halter: It's not fair, but good. FAZ, July 23, 2010, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Eva Menasse: America's sweet fruit cake life. ZEIT, July 15, 2010, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Strout, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Maine