Jennifer Clement
Jennifer Clement (born 1960 in Greenwich, Connecticut ) is an American author. She lives and works in Mexico .
Life
Jennifer Clement's parents moved to Mexico City in 1961 , where she grew up. She studied literature and anthropology at New York University and French literature in Paris and received a Masters of Arts from the University of Southern Maine . She has two children.
Clement became known with the literary portrait Widow Basquiat , which is based on conversations with Suzanne Mallouk and her texts, Mallouk was the lover of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat , who died in 1988 of his drug addiction .
In addition to the novels A True Story Based on Lies and The Poison that Fascinates, she published several volumes of poetry: The Next Stranger (with an introduction by WS Merwin ), Newton's Sailor , Lady of the Broom , and a selection volume. Clement's texts have appeared in The Times , Poetry London , The Nation , The American Poetry Review and National Geographic and have been included in anthologies.
For her novel Prayers for the Stolen about human trafficking organized by drug cartels , she conducted research in the Mexican state of Guerrero .
Clement has been a member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte since 2000 . From 2009 to 2012 she was elected president of the Mexican PEN. On October 15, 2015, she became the first woman president of the international PEN club.
Prizes and awards
- 2001: The Canongate Prize for New Writing
- 2001: Finalist at the Orange Prize for Fiction with A True Story Based on Lies .
- 2004: Residence grant for Berlin from the Goethe Institute and the Literary Colloquium Berlin .
- 2007: Fellowship of the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire , USA.
- 2012: Fellowship in Fiction des National Endowment for the Arts .
Works (selection)
- Widow Basquiat . Edinburgh: Payback Press, 2000. Revised 2014 edition.
- A True Story Based on Lies . Edinburgh: Canongate, 2001
- Lady of the broom - la dama de la escoba . Bilingual. Translation into Spanish by Guillermo Sánchez Arreolo and Sylvia Macduff. Mexico, DF: Editorial Aldus, 2002
- The Poison that Fascinates . Edinburgh: Canongate, 2008
- New and Selected Poems . Bristol: Shearsman, 2008
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Prayers for the stolen: a novel . New York: Hogarth Press, 2014
- Prayers for the Missing: Roman . Translated by Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner . Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42452-0 .
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Gun Love , New York / London: Hogarth, 2018
- Gun Love , translator Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42832-0 , online edition: ISBN 978-3-518-75893-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Jennifer Clement in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jennifer Clement in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jennifer Clement at perlentaucher.de
- Jennifer Clement's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jennifer Clement , at the Berlin International Literature Festival
- ↑ Jennifer Clement , at Suhrkamp
- ^ Roman about human trafficking «Cruelty from Mexico» , review by Holger Heimann on Deutschlandfunk on April 29, 2015, accessed May 6, 2015
- ↑ Guerrero means warrior ... in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on October 19, 2014, page 41
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clement, Jennifer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greenwich (Connecticut) |