Jessie Greengrass
Jessie Greengrass (born 1982 ) is a British writer.
life and work
Jessie Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge and London. She lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed . In 2015 she published a volume of short stories under the title An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It . For this she received the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Greengrass published her first novel in 2018 under the title Sight , which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize , among others .
In her debut novel, Greengrass combines literature and essay, biographical moments of the protagonists alternate with essayistic passages about Sigmund Freud , Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and John Hunter . From a feminist perspective that is inserted into medical and psychoanalytic theories, the narrator seeks answers for the right way to deal with others and problematizes her experience of alienation with her unborn child.
Works
- An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it . London: John Murray, 2017
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Sight: a novel . London: Hogarth, 2018
- What we know about each other. Novel . Translation by Andrea O'Brien . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2020
Web links
- Literature by and about Jessie Greengrass in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jessie Greengrass in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jessie Greengrass at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicolas Freund: Between Saturn's moon and womb. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Greengrass, Jessie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |