Heidi Julavits

Heidi Julavits (2015)

Heidi Suzanne Julavits (born 1968 in Portland , Maine ) is an American writer.

Life

Heidi Julavits grew up in Portland and attended Dartmouth College . She studied languages ​​and received an MFA from Columbia University . She was a Guggenheim Fellow . She has been an author since 2003 and now also publisher with Vendela Vida of the literary magazine The Believer .

Julavits married the writer Ben Marcus and they live in Manhattan with their children .

Works (selection)

• Half life: and other stories . Columbia University, New York 1996 (Masters thesis in creative writing from Columbia University).
• The Mineral Palace . Virago, London 2000.
  • The mineral palace . Translation by Margarete Längfeld, Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-492-04291-8 .
• The Effect of Living Backwards . Berkley Books, New York 2003.
• The Uses of Enchantment . Random House, New York 2006.
• Ed Park; Heidi Julavits (Ed.): Read hard: five more years of great writing from Believer . Believer Books, San Francisco 2010.
• The Vanishers . Anchor, New York 2012.
• Ed Park; Heidi Julavits (Ed.): Read harder: five more years of great writing from Believer . Believer Books, San Francisco 2014.
• with Sheila Heti ; Leanne Shapton : Women in Clothes . Blue Rider Press, New York 2014.
  • with Sheila Heti; Leanne Shapton: Women and Dresses . Translation Sophie Zeitz and Britt Somann, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002242-4 .
• The folded clock: A Diary . Doubleday Books, 2015
  • Today: on the trail of life . Translation Britt Somann-Jung, Atrium Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85535-005-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heidi Julavits in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Heidi Julavits in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Heidi Julavits at perlentaucher.de
• Heidi Julavits in the Internet Movie Database (English)