Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman (* 1954 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American writer .
Life
Francisco Goldman is the son of a Guatemalan mother and an American father with Jewish roots. He studied at the University of Michigan , the New School for Social Research and New York University and was trained as a translator for Spanish. Goldman was a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation in 1998 and was invited to the American Academy in Berlin in 2010 . Goldman has taught at various universities and has also been involved in summer courses in Spain. He teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Trinity College in Hartford (Connecticut) and writes for major US newspapers and magazines, the first versions of his books appearing in the New Yorker . He also translated texts by Gabriel Garcia Marquez . Goldman was married to Aura Estrada, who had a bodysurfing accident in 2007 . Goldman lives alternately in New York City and Mexico City .
In 1993 he received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for The Long Night of White Chickens . Some of his novels were finalists for the PEN / Faulkner Award . When lucrative International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award , he came up with The Ordinary Seaman shortlisted. The factual report The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? deals with the murder of the Guatemalan Roman Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi , who campaigned in his country to come to terms with the crimes committed during the civil war . The report was featured in The New York Times Book Review . The text The Wave , which appeared in The New Yorker on February 7, 2011, is the basis of his novel Say Her Name about the death of his wife, which won the Prix Femina Étranger in the French translation in 2011 . In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Goldman's books have been translated into more than ten languages.
Works (selection)
- Say her name . Translated from the English by Roberto de Hollanda. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-02521-2 .
- The art of political murder . Translated from the English by Roberto de Hollanda. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-02507-6 .
- Heavenly Consort . Novel. Translated from the English by Robin Detje and Juliane Gräbener-Müller. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-25304-1 .
- The stolen life of the Flor de Mayo . Novel. From the English by Thomas Schlachter. Novel. List, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-471-79374-7 .
- Esteban's dream . Novel. From the American. by Thomas Schlachter. List, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-471-79357-7 . ( The ordinary seaman )
Web links
- Literature by and about Francisco Goldman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Francisco Goldman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Francisco Goldman at perlentaucher.de
- Francisco Goldman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Francisco Goldman , website
- Francisco Goldman , at PEN
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldman, Francisco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |