Jim Nisbet

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Jim Nisbet (born January 20, 1947 in Schenectady , New York) is an American writer .

life and work

In the last forty years or so, Nisbet has published not only novels, poetry and plays but also articles, essays and short stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies and a non-fiction book on the construction and design of retro-futuristic furniture. His novels are also published in Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Romania and Greece. After living in San Francisco with his wife for fifty years , the couple moved to Sausalito in 2017 .

Publications

Novels

  • The Gourmet , 1981 (Republished as The Damned Don't Die , 1986)
  • Death Puppet , 1989
  • Ulysse's Dog , 1992 (re-released as The Spider's Cage , 2012)
  • The Price of the Ticket ou You Stiffed Me, 1997
  • Prelude to a Scream , 1997
  • The Syracuse Codex , 2004
  • Dark Companion , 2004
    • Dark companion , German by Angelika Müller and Frank Nowatzki, Pulp 28, Pulp Master, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-927734-42-5
  • The Octopus on My Head , 2007
    • The octopus on my head , German by Angelika Müller, Pulp 35, Pulp Master, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-927734-48-7
  • Windward Passage , 2010
  • A Moment of Doubt , 2010
  • Old & Cold , 2012
  • Snitch World , 2013
    • World without scruples , German by Ango Laina and Angelika Müller, Pulp 39, Pulp Master, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-927734-63-0

Poetry

  • Poems for a Lady , 1977
  • Morpho , with Alastair Johnston, 1983
  • Gnachos for Bishop Berkeley , 1980
  • Small Apt , with photographs by Shelly Vogel, 1992
  • Across the Tasman Sea , 1997
  • Sonnets

Plays

  • Valentine
  • Note from Earth
  • WonderEndz
  • SmackVision
  • Alas, Poor Yorick

Non-fiction

  • Laminating the Conic Frustum , Transitional Face, Berkeley, 1991

Nominations

  • 2013 Spinetingler's Best Novella / Short Novel Award for Old & Cold
  • 2010 Best International Fiction Award on Friday for Dark Companion
  • 2006 Hammett Prize for Dark Companion
  • Pushcart Prize in short fiction (three times)
  • 30th Annual Northern California Book Awards for A Moment of Doubt
  • 65th Grand Prix de Littérature Policier for Windward Passage under the French title Traversée vent debout

Awards

  • 2010 Best Science Fiction Award at the San Francisco Book Festival for Windward Passage
  • Pangolin Papers Annual Fiction Award (two times)

Press reviews

“Jim Nisbet is one of those authors who doesn't seem to have a place in the modern literary scene. For around thirty years the man has been writing - poems, plays, detective novels - almost in camera. Not because he wants to. But because the readers want something different: melancholically pondered inspectors who torment their way through meaningless killer plots, or travel and gourmet guides disguised as crime thrillers. "

- Marcus Müntefering, Spiegel 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jim Nisbet: Resume, Books, and Reviews at LovelyBooks. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jim Nisbet: World Without Scruples . No. 39 . Pulp Master, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-927734-63-0 , pp. 2 .
  3. ↑ Claus Kerkhoff: Jim Nisbet: Dark Companion. In: CulturMag. March 6, 2010, accessed on June 28, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Jim Nisbet. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Nisbet, Jim 1947–. In: Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ BOOKS. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ BIOGRAPHY. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  8. ↑ New thrillers: Walter Kirns Blut wants to talk, Jim Nisbet, Flore Vasseur - DER SPIEGEL - Kultur. DER SPIEGEL, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nisbet, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nisbet, James; Nisbet, F. Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenectady , New York