Ian McGuire

Ian McGuire (born 1964) is a British writer and literary scholar .

biography

McGuire grew up in the northern English port city of Hull , studied literature at the University of Sussex (MA) and received his doctorate from the University of Virginia (PhD 1996). Since 1996 he has taught American literature and creative writing at the University of Manchester . He specializes in 19th-century American literature and has written on Walt Whitman and Herman Melville , among others , but he is particularly interested in the literature of realism . In 2015 he published a biography of Richard Fordbefore, i.e. one of the most important contemporary American writers (whom MacGuire reads as firmly anchored in the realistic tradition of William Dean Howells ).

He is known to a larger audience as a novelist. His debut, the campus novel Incredible Bodies , was mostly well received by the critics and also translated into German. The sequel to The North Water , one of Cormac McCarthy and Herman Melville trained adventure, history and at the same time detective novel about a whaling expedition to the Canadian Arctic was in 2016 for the Man Booker Prize nominated (Long List) and was approved by the New York Times to a chosen the ten best books of the year; In 2018 it was published in German under the title Nordwasser .

Awards

• 2017: Encore Award for The North Water

Works

Fiction

Novels

• Incredible bodies . Bloomsbury, London 2006.
  • German: smart ass . Translated by Andreas Jäger. Goldmann, Munich 2007
• The North Water . Scribner, London 2016
  • German: Nordwasser . Translated by Joachim Körber . Mare, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86648-267-8

Short stories (selection)

• The Red Monk . In: The Paris Review 158, Spring / Summer 2001, pp. 85-117

Literary studies

• Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 2015.

Secondary literature

• Doug Battersby: Contemporary Realism, Postmodernism, and Bodily Feeling: Ian McGuire's The North Water . In: English: Journal of the English Association Volume 67, No. 256, 2018, pp. 1–22.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Man Booker Prize 2016: The Longlist - in Pictures . In: The Guardian (online edition), July 27, 2016.
2. ^ The 10 Best Books of 2016: The Year's Best Books, Selected by the Editors of The New York Times Book Review . In: The New York Times (online edition), December 1, 2016.