Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh (born October 16, 1968 in Barnesboro , Cambria County , Pennsylvania ) is an American writer.
Life
Jennifer Haigh attended Dickinson College in Carlisle and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002 . Haigh has lived in Boston since 2014 .
Her first novel, Mrs. Kimble , received the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award in 2004 . The novel Baker Towers thematizes the ultimate decline of the mining region of their homeland, it was a 2006 New York Times bestseller . Your third novel Auftauchen deals with Turner syndrome . In the novel Licht und Glut , an unemployed society is put into a supposed boom with natural gas extraction using fracking technology.
Works (selection)
- Mrs Kimble (2003)
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Baker Towers (2005)
- And a new life every day: a novel . Translation by Annette Wetzel. Munich: Goldmann, 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-46098-4
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The Condition (2008)
- Pop up. Novel . Translation by Christine Frick-Gerke. Munich: Knaur, 2013 ISBN 978-3-426-19859-9
- Faith (2011)
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Heat and Light (2016)
- Light and Embers: Roman . Translation by Juliane Gräbener-Müller. Munich: Droemer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-28169-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Jennifer Haigh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jennifer Haigh in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Jennifer Haigh , website
- Janet Maslin : Review: With 'Heat and Light,' Jennifer Haigh Drills Below the Surface , at NYT, April 28, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haigh, Jennifer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barnesboro , Cambria County , Pennsylvania |