Gerard Donovan

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Gerard Anthony Donovan (born May 16, 1959 in Wexford , County Wexford ) is an Irish writer whose novel "Winter in Maine" in 2008 was named "Book of the Year 2008" by The Guardian newspaper .

Life

After childhood and youth in Galway , Donovan studied philosophy and German in Ireland . After graduating, he moved to Germany , where he first worked in a cheese factory and then was employed at the Technical University of Hanover . After a while he returned to Ireland in the early 1980s and studied classical guitar in Dublin, the capital, for seven years. In the following years he earned some money as a musician with a focus on Johann Sebastian Bach . He received his master's degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the 1990s . Since then he has taught at a college in Long Island .

In the early 1990s he began his literary work and published the first volume of poetry "Columbus Rides Again". He also published various short stories . His first novel “Schopenhauer's Telescope” was published in 2003 in English. With his brothers he took part in the “ Marathon des Sables ” in Morocco. Today he lives in New York City .

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So far, Gerard Donovan has published the following novels:

  • Schopenhauer's Telescope , 2003
  • Doctor Salt , 2005
  • Julius Winsome , 2006
    • Winter in Maine . German translation by Thomas Gunkel. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 9783630872728
  • Sunless , 2007
  • Country of the Grand , 2008
    • Morning Swimmer: Irish Stories . German translation by Rudolf Hermstein. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3630873329

He also published these collections of poetry:

  • Columbus Rides Again , 1992
  • Kings and Bicycles , 1995
  • The Lighthouse , 2000

Awards

  • The Guardian Newspaper's Book of the Year 2008 for Julius Winsome ( Winter in Maine )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerard Donovan ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 Luchterland Verlag  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.randomhouse.de
  2. ↑ a b Gerard Donovan at Krimi-Couch.de
  3. ↑ Gerard Donovan ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 Irish Writers Online  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.irishwriters-online.com
personal data
SURNAME Donovan, Gerard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donovan, Gerard Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Wexford