James Hawes (writer)

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James Hawes (born 1960 in Wiltshire ) is a British writer .

Life

James Hawes grew up in Gloucestershire , Edinburgh and Shropshire . He studied German at Hertford College , Oxford, and then went on to do a year of drama in Cardiff .

He tried his hand at acting, worked as an English teacher in Spain and worked in 1985/86 at the Blaenavon Ironworks industrial museum in Wales. From 1987 he studied again at University College London and received his doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on Nietzsche and German literature at the turn of the century . Hawes then worked as a German teacher, until 1991 at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth , then at the University of Sheffield and finally at Swansea University . Hawes has worked as a lecturer since 2008 and as a reader for creative writing at Oxford Brookes University since 2012 .

Hawe's first novels, A White Merc with Fins (1996) and Rancid Aluminum (1997), both landed on the Sunday Times bestseller list . Hawes published a biography of Kafka in 2008 . His book The Shortest History of Germany (2017) also received good reviews in England and made it onto the Sunday Times bestseller list, while the criticism of the German translation in the daily Die Welt was reserved.

Works (selection)

  • Nietzsche and the end of freedom: the neo-romantic dilemma in Kafka, the brothers Mann, Rilke and Musil. 1904-1914 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1993 ISBN 978-3-631-46179-2
  • A White Merc With Fins (1996)
    • A white Mercedes with tail fins: Roman . Translation by Wolfgang Mittelmaier. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1996
  • Rancid aluminum . 1997
    • Rancid aluminum . Screenplay for the film, 2000
    • Rancid aluminum: Roman . Translation of Kristian Lutze. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2000
  • Dead Long Enough . 2000
    • Dead Long Enough . Screenplay for the film, 2006
  • White powder, green light . 2002
  • Speak for England . 2005
  • My Little Armalite . 2008
  • Excavating Kafka . Quercus, London 2008
  • Englanders and Huns: How five decades of enmity led to the First World War . 2014
  • The Shortest history of Germany . 2017
    • The shortest history of Germany . Translation Stephan Pauli. Propylaea, Berlin 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marc Reichwein: Ostelbien, an aberration . Review in: The Literary World , June 2, 2018, p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Hawes, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiltshire