James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936 in Houston , Texas ) is an American crime writer .

After completing his studies at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and the University of Missouri and doing numerous temporary jobs, including as a journalist and teacher, he published his first books in the mid-1960s. However, he only became successful with his crime novels in the late 1980s. The best known is his crime series about the southern police officer Dave Robicheaux. Burke has received many prestigious awards, including the Edgar , and several of his novels have been made into films.

In the 1970s, Burke, although he had already published several novels by then, only received rejections for The Lost Get-Back Boogie (allegedly a record-breaking 111 rejections in nine years). When a publisher was finally ready to publish a revised version, the book even received a Pulitzer Prize nomination .

Burke lives with his wife in Lolo , Montana and New Iberia , Louisiana . He has four children; his daughter Alafair Burke also writes detective novels.

Works

The Dave Robicheaux series

• Volume 1: The Neon Rain , 1987
  • Neon rain, German by Hans H. Harbort; Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Ullstein 1991. ISBN 3-548-10670-6
  • Neon rain, new edition: revised translation, Bielefeld, Pendragon Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-86532-548-8
• Volume 2: Heaven's Prisoners , 1988
  • Blood in the Bayous, German by Jürgen Behrens; Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Ullstein 1991. ISBN 3-548-10692-7
  • Mississippi Delta - Blood in the Bayous, same translation; Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Ullstein 1996. ISBN 3-548-24103-4
  • Blood in the Bayous, new edition: revised translation, Bielefeld, Pendragon Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-86532-548-8
• Volume 3: Black Cherry Blues , 1989
  • Black Cherry Blues, German by Ulrich von Berg; Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Ullstein 1992. ISBN 3-548-10704-4
  • Dirty business, new edition: revised translation, Bielefeld, Pendragon Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-86532-574-7
• Volume 4: A Morning for Flamingos , 1990
  • Flamingo, German by Oliver Huzly; Munich, Goldmann 1993. ISBN 3-442-41317-6
• Volume 5: A Stained White Radiance , 1992
  • White glow, German by Oliver Huzly; Munich, Goldmann 1994. ISBN 3-442-41544-6
• Volume 6: In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead , 1993
  • In the shadow of the mangroves, German by Oliver Huzly; Munich, Goldmann 1996. ISBN 3-442-42577-8
• Volume 7: Dixie City Jam , 1994
  • Mississippi Jam, German by Jürgen Bürger; Bielefeld, Pendragon 2016. ISBN 978-3-86532-527-3
• Volume 8: Burning Angel , 1995
  • In the dark of the delta, German by Georg Schmidt; Munich, Goldmann 1998. ISBN 3-442-43531-5
• Volume 9: Cadillac Jukebox , 1996
  • Night over the Bayou, German by Georg Schmidt; Munich, Goldmann 1999. ISBN 3-442-44041-6
• Volume 10: Sunset Limited , 1998
  • Mala fever, German by Christine Frauendorf-Mössel; Munich, Goldmann 2000. ISBN 3-442-44509-4
• Volume 11: Purple Cane Road , 2000
  • Road to Nowhere, German by Georg Schmidt; Munich, Goldmann 2002. ISBN 3-442-45104-3
• Volume 12: Jolie Blon's Bounce , 2002
  • The guilt of the fathers, German by Georg Schmidt; Munich, Goldmann 2003. ISBN 3-442-45561-8
• Volume 13: Last Car to Elysian Fields , 2003
  • Street of violence, German by Jürgen Bürger; Bielefeld, Pendragon 2017. ISBN 978-3-86532-564-8
• Volume 14: Crusader's Cross , 2005
  • Escape to Mexico, German by Jürgen Bürger; Bielefeld, Pendragon 2018. ISBN 978-3-86532-621-8
• Volume 15: Pegasus Descending , 2006
• Volume 16: The Tin Roof Blowdown , 2007
  • Storm over New Orleans, German by Georg Schmidt; Bielefeld, Pendragon 2015. ISBN 978-3-86532-450-4
• Volume 17: Swan Peak , 2008
• Volume 18: The Glass Rainbow , 2010
• Volume 19: Creole Belle , 2012
• Volume 20: Light of the World , 2013
• Volume 21: Robicheaux , 2018
  • My name is Robicheaux, German from Jürgen Bürger, Bielefeld, Pendragon 2019. ISBN 978-3-86532-658-4
• Volume 22: The New Iberia Blues , 2019
  • Blues in New Iberia, German by Jürgen Bürger, Bielefeld, Pendragon 2020. ISBN 978-3-86532-684-3

The Billy Bob Holland series

• Cimarron Rose , 1997
  • Dunkler Strom, German by Georg Schmidt; Munich, Goldmann 1999. ISBN 3-442-44376-8
• Heartwood , 1999
  • Feuerregen, German by Georg Schmidt; Munich, Goldmann 2002. ISBN 3-442-45098-5
• Bitterroot , 2001
  • The glow of anger, German by Georg Schmidt; Munich, Goldmann 2004. ISBN 3-442-45565-0
• In the Moon of Red Ponies , 2004

The Hackberry Holland range

• Lay Down My Sword and Shield , 1971
  • Harvest Time, German by Daniel Müller; Munich, Heyne 2017. ISBN 978-3-453-27101-2
• Rain Gods , 2009
  • Rain Gods, German by Daniel Müller; Munich, Heyne 2014. ISBN 978-3-453-67681-7
• Feast Day of Fools , 2011
  • Embers and Ash, German by Daniel Müller; Munich, Heyne 2015. ISBN 978-3-453-67680-0

Other

• Half of Paradise (novel), 1965
• To The Bright and Shining Sun (novel), 1970
• Two for Texas (Western), 1982
• The Convict ( short stories), 1985
• The Lost Get-Back Boogie (novel), 1986
• White Doves at Morning (novel), 2002
• Jesus out to Sea (short stories), 2007
• Wayfaring Stranger (novel), 2014
  • Foreign country, German by Ulrich Thiele; Munich, Heyne 2016. ISBN 978-3-453-27015-2
• House of the Rising Sun (novel), 2015
  • Father and son, German by Daniel Müller; Munich, Heyne 2016. ISBN 978-3-453-27088-6
• The Jealous Kind (novel), 2016
  • Dark Summer, German by Daniel Müller; Munich, Heyne 2018. ISBN 978-3-453-27134-0

Film adaptations

• Heaven's Prisoners , 1996 ( Mississippi Delta - In the Swamp of Vengeance )
• Two for Texas , 1998 (TV movie with Kris Kristofferson )
• In the Electric Mist , 2009 ( murder in Louisiana )
• Winter Light , 2014 (short film | adaptation of a short story)

Awards

• 1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel category for Black Cherry Blues
• 1992 Grand prix de littérature policière - International category for Black Cherry Blues
• 1992 Prix ​​Mystère de la critique for Black Cherry Blues
• 1995 German Crime Prize - International 3 for white glow
• 1995 Hammett Prize for Dixie City Jam
• 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel category for Cimarron Rose
• 1998 Gold Dagger from the UK Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for Sunset Limited
• 2009 Grand Master Award , the highest award from the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) for special achievements in the crime genre and the consistently high quality of his works (together with Sue Grafton )
• 2009 Prix ​​Mystère de la critique - International category for Dernier tramway pour les Champs-Elysées (Original: Last Car to Elysian Fields )
• 2014 Crime of the Year in the KrimiZEIT best list for rain gods

literature

• Barbara Bogue: James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux . Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2006. ISBN 978-0-7864-2622-5

Web links

• Literature by and about James Lee Burke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of the author (English)
• The Night Johnny Ace died

Individual references, comments

1. ↑ year of the award ceremony; the IACW / NA only records the year the book was published