Jason Goodwin

Jason Goodwin (2011)

Jason Goodwin (* 1964 ) is an English historian and writer.

Life

Goodwin studied history ( Byzantine Studies) at the University of Cambridge and was able to successfully complete this course. When the Iron Curtain fell shortly afterwards , he and a fellow student emigrated from Poland to Turkey .

After returning to England , he married his fellow immigrant and lives with their four children in southern England .

Awards

• 1993 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize ( Daily Mail ) for his travelogue From Gdansk to Istanbul
• 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award ( MWA ) for his detective novel The Wisdom of the Eunuch

Works

Fiction

• Yashim-Togalu cycle

1. The wisdom of the eunuch. Detective novel ("The janissary tree", 2007). Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-25170-9 .
2. The antiquarian of Constantinople. Historical detective novel ("The snake stone", 2007). Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25738-1 .
3. The Bellini Conspiracy ("Bellini card", 2009). Piper, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-25943-9 .
4. To Evil Eye . Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-374-11040-6 .

Non-fiction

• Greenback . The almighty dollar and the invention of America . Holt, New York 2003, ISBN 0-8050-6407-9 .
• The gunpowder gardens. Travels through India and China in search of tea . Chatto & Windus, London 2003, ISBN 0-1410-0678-1 (reprint of the London 1990 edition).
• Lord of the horizons. A history of the Ottoman empire . Chatto & Windus, London 1998, ISBN 0-7011-3669-3 .
• Otis . Giving rise to the modern city . Dee Books, Chicago, Ill. 2001, ISBN 1-56663-385-0 .
• From Gdansk to Istanbul. On foot through old Europe (“On foot to the Golden Horn”). Malik Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-40370-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jason Goodwin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Jason Goodwin