Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton (born January 28, 1953 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer.
Life
Hamilton grew up in the Irish capital Dublin. His mother is a German who came to Ireland as a pilgrim in 1949 and married an Irish engineer. As a nationalist, he insisted that his children speak German or Irish , but not English. Young Hugo, who learned and spoke English while playing with other children, found this rule very difficult. He did not feel that he belonged to any language group: "There were no other children who looked like me, no ethnic group that I could join". The young Hugo therefore opposed the language ban with an inner resistance: “The English ban meant that I saw this language as a challenge. As a child, I therefore spoke to myself in English and secretly repeated English dialogues that I had heard in the outside world, ”wrote Hamilton later.
Hamilton worked as a journalist and began writing short stories and novels. In 1992 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature . 2001/2002 he lived under a DAAD scholarship in Berlin and used the time to finish a book about his childhood appeared in 2003 The Speckled People (dt. 2004, The Speckled People ); In 2004 the French translation Sang impur received the Prix Femina Étranger . A sequel, The Sailor in the Wardrobe , was released in 2006 (2006, The Sailor in the Wardrobe ).
In 2007, after retracing Heinrich Böll's journey , which the Irish diary is about, he wrote Die Talkselige Insel for the German Luchterhand literary publisher . In 2011 the novel Der irische Freund (original title: Hand in the Fire ) was published by the same publisher , and in 2014 the novel Every Single Minute (original: Every Single Minute ).
Hamilton made his playwright debut in October 2011 at Dublin's Gate Theater with his own adaptation of The Speckled People ; In September 2014, his play The Mariner also premiered there.
Hamilton lives in Dublin and is a member of the Aosdána .
Honors
- Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (1992)
- Prix Femina Étranger (2004), for The Speckled People (French: Sang impur )
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (July 11, 2014)
Works in German
- War love. Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-88243-413-9
- The last hero of Dublin. Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-88243-627-1
- A bad loser. Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-88243-735-9
- Feelings of innocence. DAAD, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89357-104-3
- Piebald people. (Autobiography) Dt. by Henning Ahrens . Knaus, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8135-0229-5
- The sailor in the closet. (Autobiography) Dt. by Henning Ahrens. Knaus, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8135-0239-8
- The talkative island. Irish diary. German by Henning Ahrens. Luchterhand-Literaturverl., Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-62117-3
- Legends. Novel. German by Henning Ahrens. Luchterhand, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-630-87281-0
- The Irish friend. Novel. German by Henning Ahrens. Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87300-8
- Every single minute. Novel. German by Henning Ahrens. Luchterhand, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87425-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Hugo Hamilton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hugo Hamilton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official Homepage of Hugo Hamilton (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamilton, Hugo 1953– on encyclopedia.com
- ^ Hugo Hamilton, "Speaking to the walls in English", Powells.com , undated. Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2006 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.
- ^ Entry on Hamilton, Hugo in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
- ↑ Germany's ambassador: in praise of Hugo Hamilton , address by the German ambassador in Dublin at the award of the Federal Cross of Merit to Hamilton in October 2014 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamilton, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |