Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara, 2016

Hanya Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American journalist and writer .

Life

Yanagihara grew up in Hawaii . Her father is a native Hawaiian of Japanese descent, her mother a native South Korean, but who also grew up in Hawaii. As a teenager, she also spent many years in Maryland and Texas due to her father's career .

After graduating from Smith College in Northampton in 1995 , Yanagihara initially worked as an editor for the travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler before becoming assistant editor of the weekend supplement T: The New York Times Style Magazine for The New York Times .

Yanagiharas first novel, The People in the Trees (dt. The people of the trees ) was published in 2013 and deals with the life and the abuse scandal at the US virologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Carleton Gajdusek . It was translated into German after the great success of her second novel.

In 2015 she published her second novel A Little Life , which also dealt with sexual abuse and its consequences and was published in German in 2017. A Little Life was shortlisted for the British Booker Prize (2015) and the International DUBLIN Literary Award (2017). It is described as "... one of the best-selling and most discussed literary works of recent years".

Yanagihara currently lives and works in New York .

Publications

• with Quang Bao: Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific Artists. Asian American Writers' Workshop. Temple University , New York 2000, ISBN 1-889876-11-9 .
• The People in the Trees . Atlantic, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-385-53677-6 .
  • The people of the trees . Translated from the English by Stephan Kleiner, Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26202-7 .
• A Little Life, a Novel. Doubleday, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-385-53925-8 .
  • A little life . Translation into German by Stephan Kleiner. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25471-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tim Adams: Hanya Yyanagihara: "I wanted everything turned up a little too high." . In: Theguardian.com , July 27, 2015, accessed May 6, 2017.
2. ↑ Current elective affinities. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . December 6, 2015, p. 49.
3. ↑ Heart growth in the shadow of the past. In: FAZ . January 28, 2017, p. 10.
4. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/Hanya-Yanagihara-Das-Volk-der-Baeume,dasvolkderbaeume102.html , accessed on October 13, 2019
5. ↑ Claudia Voigt: The jungle queen . Der Spiegel, February 9, 2019, p. 115 .