George P. Pelecanos

George Pelecanos (2013)

George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957 in Washington, DC ) is an American journalist , detective writer , screenwriter and producer .

Life

George Pelecanos has Greek ancestry and was raised in Washington DC, where his father as a child emigrated . As the child of a working-class family, Pelecanos helped the family who earned their living in the Greek immigrant scene by working in cheap restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc. Up to the age of 32 he worked in various jobs, including electronics salesman, shoe salesman, construction worker and bartender, while at the same time completing an art degree at Maryland University .
Then Pelecanos began to write and in 1992 published A Firing Offense, the first part of the Nick Stefanos trilogy . From the point of view of the common people, Pelecanos describes - also socially critical - in this and seven other novels the history of Washington from several decades. His novels are all set in and around Washington DC.

Pelecanos' literary talent secured him journalistic publications in The New York Times , The Washington Post , the American edition of Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ), the cultural magazine Washingtonian and many other publications.

Pelecanos has also been very successful as a producer, screenwriter, and writer for film and television. He wrote seven scripts for the famous US television series The Wire , most of them for season 4, which earned him an Emmy nomination . 2017 is involved in the series The Deuce .

George P. Pelecanos lives in Silver Spring , Maryland with his wife and three children .

Awards

Eric Overmyer , Nina Kostroff Noble , David Simon and George Pelecanos with a Peabody Award (2012)

• 1999 Marlowe - International category of the Raymond Chandler Society for The Sweet Forever
• 1999 Maltese Falcon Award from The Maltese Falcon Award Society in Japan (TMFS) for The Big Blowdown
• 2000 German Krimipreis - International category, 2nd place for The big killing
• 2003 Gumshoe Awards - Best Novel category of the American Internet magazine Mystery Ink for Hell to Pay
• 2005 Premio Raymond Chandler (Italy) in recognition of his previous literary work
• 2005 Grand Prix du Roman Noir Etranger for Soul Circus (Original: Soul Circus )
• 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best TV Feature or MiniSeries category for his Season 4 scripts in the television series The Wire
• 2009 Hammett Prize for The Turnaround

Works

Nick Stefanos trilogy

• 1992 A Firing Offense
• 1993 Nick's Trip
• 1995 Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go
  • The dark heart of the city, by Karen Witthuhn; ars vivendi; Cadolzburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-86913-917-3

Washington Noir Series

George Pelecanos (2008)

• 1996 The Big Blowdown
  • The big flipping, German by Bernd W. Holzrichter, DuMont, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-7701-4823-1
  • also as: Big Blowdown, same translation, DuMont, Cologne 2011. ISBN 3-8321-6175-9
• 1997 King Suckerman
  • King Suckerman, German by Bernd W. Holzrichter, DuMont, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3-7701-5017-1
• 1998 The Sweet Forever
  • A sweet eternity, German by Bernd W. Holzrichter, DuMont, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-8321-5323-3
• 2000 Shame the Devil

Derek Strange / Terry Quinn series

• 2001 Right as Rain
  • Shot in the black, German by Bettina Zeller, Rotbuch, Hamburg 2003. ISBN 3-434-53114-9
• 2002 Hell to Pay
  • Anger in the stomach, German by Bettina Zeller, Rotbuch, Hamburg 2004. ISBN 3-434-54055-5 .
• 2003 Soul Circus
• 2004 Hard Revolution
  • Hard Revolution, German by Gottfried Röckelein; Ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-86913-766-7 .
• 2012 What It Was

Other novels

• 1994 Shoedog
• 2005 Drama City
• 2006 The Night Gardener
  • The Garden of the Dead, German by Anja Schünemann, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008. ISBN 978-3-499-24786-6 .
• 2008 The turnaround
• 2009 The Way Home
  • No way back, German by Anja Schünemann, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010. ISBN 978-3-499-25427-7 .
• 2011 The Cut
  • A dirty business, German by Jochen Schwarzer, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012. ISBN 978-3-499-25885-5 .
• 2017 The man who came uptown
  • Prisoners. Translated from the English by Karen Witthuhn. Ars Vivendi, Cadolzburg 2019, 230 pp., ISBN 978-3-7472-0011-7 .

Anthologies as editor

• 2006 DC Noir
• 2008 Best American Mystery Stories 2008

TV scripts for the television series The Wire

• 2002 Cleaning Up . Season 1, episode 12. First broadcast: September 1, 2002 (German The Purge . First broadcast: November 30, 2008)
• 2003 Duck and Cover . 2nd season, 8th episode. First broadcast: July 27, 2003 (German. Back to the roots . First broadcast: January 29, 2009)
• 2004 Hamsterdam . 3rd season, 4th episode. First broadcast: October 10, 2004 (German Hamsterdam . First broadcast: December 23, 2009)
• 2004 slapstick . 3rd season, episode 9. First broadcast: November 21, 2004 (German. The Free Zone . First broadcast: January 19, 2010)
• 2004 Middle Ground . 3rd season, episode 11. First broadcast: December 12, 2004 (German. Living and Dying in Baltimore . First broadcast: February 5, 2010)
• 2006 That's Got His Own . Season 4, episode 12. First broadcast: December 3, 2006 (German. On your own feet . First broadcast: May 21, 2010)
• 2008 Late Editions . 5th season, 9th episode. First broadcast: March 2, 2008 (German Late Editions . First broadcast: July 9, 2010)

TV scripts for the television series The Pacific

• 2010 Melbourne (with Michelle Ashford). 3rd episode. First broadcast: March 28, 2010 (German Melbourne . First broadcast: July 29, 2010)

Films as a producer

• 1996 Caught (Eng. Caught - In the net of passion ) . Director: Robert M. Young. Screenplay: Edward Pomerantz. Actors: Edward James Olmos , María Conchita Alonso , Arie Verveen, Bitty Schram , Steven Schub and many more
• 1998 Whatever (dt. Whatever - what the hell) . Directed and written by Susan Skoog. Cast: Liza Weil , Chad Morgan, Frederic Forrest , Kathryn Rossetter, Marc Riffon and many more
• 2000 BlackMale . Directed and written by George and Mike Baluzy. Actors: Bokeem Woodbine, Roger Rees , Justin Pierce , Sascha Knopf, Erik Dellums and many more

Web links

Commons : George Pelecanos  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about George P. Pelecanos in the catalog of the German National Library
• George P. Pelecanos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official Hachette Book Group website on George P. Pelecanos , accessed April 2, 2011
• Interview from Mysteryinkonline of March 4, 2002, accessed April 2, 2011

Remarks

1. ^ Washingtonian website
2. ^ The Raymond Chandler Society only awarded prizes to original editions. The German translation did not appear until 2003.
3. ↑ year of the award ceremony; the IACW / NA only records the year the book was published
4. ↑ ^{a b c} also as a multi-part work (cassette) under the title Washington-Trilogie at DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-8321-7966-3