Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award

Geoff Dyer (born June 5, 1958 in Cheltenham , Gloucestershire ) is a British writer and journalist.

life and work

As a journalist, he covers a wide range of topics from culture, sports and geography.

His 1991 book But Beautiful - A Book About Jazz is a work on jazz that also won the Somerset Maugham Award . Central figures in jazz are characterized in narrative chapters, based on a wide variety of sources. Some of the stories are even attempts to depict what has been captured in photos by well-known jazz photographers such as William Claxton as stories; others are also descriptions of harrowing scenes from the real life of the musicians described, such as B. Thelonious Monk's arrest for a crime not committed. The epilogue turned into an essay on jazz and its history in the 20th century.

In 1995 he received the Charles Delaunay Prize for the book Jazz Impro ; In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Dyer also emerges as a travel narrator, skillfully blurring the lines between landscape description, essay, and short story .

In September 2019, with over 250 authors, he criticized the city of Dortmund for awarding the Nelly Sachs Prize to the writer Kamila Shamsie for supporting the controversial BDS campaign ( Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel), which the jury did not discuss was informed, had revoked.

bibliography

• Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger . Pluto Press, London 1986, ISBN 0-7453-0097-9 .
• The Color of Memory . Jonathan Cape, London 1989, ISBN 0-224-02585-6 .
• But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz . Jonathan Cape, London 1991, ISBN 0-86547-508-3 .
  • dt .: But Beautiful: A book about jazz . Argon Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-87024-491-7 .
  • Audio book: 3 CDs & booklet, speaker Matthias Brandt , guests including Helge Schneider & Till Brönner , Roof Music 2004
• The Search . Hamish Hamilton, London 1993, ISBN 0-349-11624-5 .
• The Missing of the Somme . Hamish Hamilton, London 1994, ISBN 0-241-00274-5 .
• Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of DH Lawrence . Little, Brown and Co., London 1997, ISBN 0-86547-540-7 .
  • German by Stephan Kleiner : Out of sheer anger . DuMont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9844-2 .
• Paris trance . Abacus, London 1998, ISBN 0-349-11020-4 .
  • German: Paris XTC . Argon Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87024-492-5 ; New edition: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15299-2 .
• Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures, 1984-98 . Abacus, London 1999, ISBN 0-349-11194-4 .
• Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It . Abacus, London 2003, ISBN 0-316-72507-2 .
  • dt .: Travel in order not to arrive . Argon Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-603-0 .
• The ongoing moment . Little, Brown, London 2005, ISBN 0-316-73025-4 .
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi . Canongate, Edinburgh 2009, ISBN 978-1-84767-270-4 .
  • German: Sex in Venice, death in Varanasi . DuMont, Cologne 2012.
• Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999–2009 . Canongate, Edinburgh 2010, ISBN 978-1-84767-862-1 .
• Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews . Graywolf, Minneapolis 2011, ISBN 978-1-55597-579-1 .
• Zona: A Book about a Journey to a Room . Canongate, Edinburgh 2012, ISBN 978-0-85786-166-5 .
  • dt .: Die Zone: A book about a film about a trip to a room . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0596-0 .
• White Sands - Experiences from the Outside World . Canongate, Edinburgh 2016. ISBN 978-1-78211-740-7 .
• The street philosophy of Garry Winogrand . University of Texas Press, Austin 2018. ISBN 978-1-4773-1033-5 .
• "Broadsword Calling Danny Boy": On Where Eagles Dare . London: Penguin, 2018.

Web links

• Geoff Dyer official website
• Literature by and about Geoff Dyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Geoff Dyer at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and list of works on the website of the British Council (English)
• Scott Sherman: The Idler: On Geoff Dyer . In: The Nation . May 9, 2011.
• William Deresiewicz : Geoff Dyer's Renovation of Contemporary Nonfiction . In: The New Republic . December 7, 2012.
• Simon Schreyer: Weather lights in the head - On the way with Geoff Dyer . In: Der Standard , album. November 25, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Right to Boycott. In: London Review of Books. September 23, 2019, accessed on September 25, 2019 .