James Sallis

James R. Sallis (born December 21, 1944 in Helena , Arkansas ) is an American writer , poet , critic , editor , musician and translator .

Life

Sallis trained as a respiratory therapist and worked in intensive care units at numerous clinics. While studying at Tulane University in New Orleans , he was able to publish his first texts. After graduation, he moved to Iowa and then to London . It was there that he wrote his first book, A Few Last Words , a volume of short stories from 1967-1970. He published the science fiction magazine New Worlds in 1968/69 with his friend and colleague Michael Moorcock . Sallis has Raymond Queneau and Alexander Pushkintranslated into English. A biography of Chester Himes was published in 2001. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife Karyn and teaches creative writing at Phoenix College .

Sallis was best known for his six-book series about the black private detective Lew Griffin . James Sallis has been nominated for several important literary awards, including the Anthony Award , the Nebula Award , the Edgar Allan Poe Award , the Shamus Award and the Dagger Award . Nicolas Winding Refn filmed his novel Driver under the title Drive with Ryan Gosling as the main actor and was awarded the prize for best director at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival .

Awards

• 2008: German Crime Prize - International (1st place) for Driver
• 2008: Crime of the year 2007 (1st place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Driver
• 2010: Crime of the year 2009 (10th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for dark guilt
• 2012: Crime of the year 2011 (8th place) in the KrimiZEIT best list for The killer dies
• 2012: Hammett Prize for The Killer is Dying (Eng. The killer dies)
• 2013: Grand prix de littérature policière, category "International" for Le tueur se meurt (Eng. The killer dies)

bibliography

Lew Griffin series

• The Long-Legged Fly (1992).
  • The long-legged fly. Translated by Georg Schmidt. DuMont, 1999. ISBN 3-7701-4858-4 . Also as: silent anger. DuMont, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8321-6235-1 .
• Moth (1993).
  • Moth. Translated by Georg Schmidt. DuMont, 2000, ISBN 3-7701-4982-3 .
• Black Hornet (1994)
• Eye of the Cricket (1997)
• Bluebottle (1999)
• Ghost of a Flea (2001)

Novels

• Renderings (1995)
• Death Will Have Your Eyes (1997)
  • Death has your eyes. Translated by Bernd W. Holzrichter. DuMont, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7701-4824-0 . Also: Liebeskind, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-935890-56-4 .
• Cypress Grove (2003)
  • Dark guilt. Translated by Jürgen Bürger. Heyne, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-43410-3 .
• Drive (2005)
  • Driver. Translated by Jürgen Bürger. Liebeskind, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-935890-46-5 .
• Cripple Creek (2006)
  • Dark retribution. Translated by Kathrin Bielfeldt and Jürgen Bürger. Heyne, 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-43411-0 .
• Salt River (2007)
  • Dark doom. Translated by Jürgen Bürger. Heyne, 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-43412-7 .
• The Killer is Dying (2011)
  • The killer dies. Translated by Kathrin Bielfeldt and Jürgen Bürger. Liebeskind, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-935890-78-6 .
• Driven (2012)
  • Driver 2. Translated by Kathrin Bielfeldt and Jürgen Bürger. Liebeskind, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-935890-99-1 .
• Others of My Kind (2013)
• Willnot (2016)
  • Willnot , German by Jürgen Bürger and Kathrin Bielfeldt. Liebeskind, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95438-102-9

Collections

• A Few Last Words (1970)
• Limits of the Sensible World (1994)
• Time's Hammers: Collected Stories (2000)
  • Drive. Translated by Martin Brinkmann . In: Krachkultur No. 15 (2013), ISBN 978-3-931924-10-2 .
• Sorrow's Kitchen (2000)
• A City Equal to My Desire (2004)

Non-fiction

• The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music (1982)
• Difficult Lives: Jim Thompson - David Goodis - Chester Himes (1993)
• Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (2000)
• Chester Himes: A Life (2001)

Anthologies (as editor)

• The War Book (1969)
  • The war book. Science fiction short stories against war. Translated by Thomas Schlück. Hammer, Wuppertal 1972, ISBN 3-87294-032-5 .
• Jazz Guitars: An Anthology (1984)
• The Guitar in Jazz (1996)
• Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany (1996)

Film adaptations

• 2011: Drive

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 356.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 852.
• John Clute : Sallis, James. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated February 10, 2917.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700-1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , p. 1061.
• Robert Thurston: Sallis, James . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 685-687.

Web links

• Literature by and about James Sallis in the catalog of the German National Library
• James Sallis in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• James Sallis in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• James Sallis in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• James Sallis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The James Sallis Web Pages (English)
• Joachim Feldmann: Interview with the author James Sallis on CulturMag.de, April 17, 2011
• "How annoyed they are now!" , Interview by Doris Kuhn in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 26, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the author's website , accessed on August 30, 2012
2. ↑ Biography on the author's website , accessed on August 30, 2012