Eudora Welty

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Headstone in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson

Eudora Alice Welty (born April 13, 1909 in Jackson , Mississippi ; † July 23, 2001 there ) was an American writer and photographer . In 1973 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel The Optimist's Daughter .

Life

Eudora Welty started writing at an early age, and when she was 11 she published her first poem in a local newspaper . After graduating from high school , she attended Mississippi State College for Women from 1925 to 1927 , then the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In 1930/31 she was at Columbia University in New York .

After finishing school, Eudora Welty worked for a regional radio station and wrote articles for newspapers on the side. She also worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) project under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In the years that followed, up to her death, Eudora Welty wrote several short stories and novels and also published several photo books with her own photos. She died at the age of 92 from complications from pneumonia .

Welty is not only considered by many to be one of the best writers in the South , but also one of the best American writers of the 20th century.

Eudora Welty's literary work is characterized in a characteristic way by her connection to the people and landscapes as well as the language of the southern states. As with the other authors of the Southern Renaissance , for example John Crowe Ransom , Katherine Anne Porter , William Faulkner , Tennessee Williams or Flannery O'Connor , the special decadent or decadent atmosphere of this region, which was determined by the defeat of the Civil War , is also impressively expressed in their prose .

Awards

Works

Original editions (selection)

  • A curtain of green . With an introduction by Katherine Anne Porter . Harcourt Brace, New York 1941
  • Delta Wedding . Harcourt Brace, New York 1946
  • The Golden Apples . Harcourt Brace, New York 1949
  • The Optimist's Daughter . Random House, New York 1972
  • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty . HBJ, New York 1977
  • The Eye of the Story. Selected essays and reviews . Random House, New York 1978

In German translation

  • My uncle Daniel. A novel . From the American by Elisabeth Schnack . Arche, Zurich 1958
  • The wedding. A novel from the Mississippi Delta . Translated into German by Elisabeth Schnack. Diogenes, Zurich 1962 DNB 455456984 .
  • The optimist's daughter . Novel. German by Kai Molvig. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-498-07272-2 .
  • Find a voice . Translated by Rüdiger Imhof. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-608-95550-X .
  • The golden apples . Translated by Tamara Willmann. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-608-95366-3 .
  • A curtain of green . Stories. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0369-5545-2 .
  • The risk to put the world into words . Three essays. German by Karen Nölle. edition five, Graefelfing 2011, ISBN 978-3-942374-11-8 .
  • The robber bridegroom . From the American by Hans J. Schütz. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Hobbit Presse, Stuttgart 2015

literature

  • Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (Ed.): Conversations With Eudora Welty . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 1985, ISBN 0-87805-205-4 .
  • Pearl Amelia McHaney (Ed.): Eudora Welty. Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty . Hill Street Press, Athens 1999, ISBN 1-892514-16-8 .
  • Suzanne Marrs: Eudora Welty. A biography . Harcourt, New York 2005, ISBN 0-15-100914-7 .
  • Carolyn J. Brown: A daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2012, ISBN 978-1-6170-3297-4 .

Web links

Commons : Eudora Welty  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, articles Eudora Welty in Southern Writers. A New Biographical Dictionary , Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 2006, p. 430
  2. ↑ See Alexander Koslowski: Eudora Welty: A Visit of Charity . In: Michael Hanke (Ed.): Interpretations · American Short Stories of the 20th Century . Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-15-017506-2 , pp. 88–95, here p. 88. See also Hubert Zapf : Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte . Metzler Verlag, 2nd act. Edition, Stuttgart a. Weimar, ISBN 3-476-02036-3 , p. 369.
  3. ^ Members: Eudora Welty. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 2, 2019 (with information on awards).
personal data
SURNAME Welty, Eudora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welty, Eudora Alice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2001
Place of death Jackson , Mississippi