Joel Agee
Joel Agee (* 1940 in New York City ) is an American writer and translator. He lives in New York.
Life
Joel Agee is the son of James Agee . His parents divorced in 1941, and his mother Alma Agee went to Mexico with her child and married Bodo Uhse there . In 1946 Agees half-brother Stefan Uhse was born in Mexico, who committed suicide in 1973 in New York City . In 1948 the family moved to Berlin, where Uhse chief editor of the cultural magazine assembly , deputy of the GDR - People's Parliament and later became chairman of the Writers Union. The marriage failed in 1960 and Alma Agee moved back to the United States with her sons.
Joel Agee wrote the book Twelve Years - An American Youth in East Germany (1982) and In the House of My Fear (2004). He translated works by Kleist , Dürrenmatt , Canetti , Nossack and Federspiel into English.
Works
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany . Farrar Straus Giroux, New York 1981
- Twelve Years - An American Youth in East Germany . Hanser, Munich [uw] 1982, new edition (with a foreword and text annotations) 2009 (translated by Joel Agee and Lola Gruenthal)
- In the House of My Fear . Shoemaker & Hoard, Washington DC 2004
Translations
- Elias Canetti : The Secret Heart of the Clock: notes, aphorisms, fragment; 1973-1985 . German, London 1991
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt : Selected writings .
- Volume 1. Plays. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2006.
- Volume 2 Fictions. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2006
- Volume 3: Essays. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2006
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Pledge . Boulevard (Mass Market), 2000
- Cordelia Edvardson : Burned child seeks the fire: a memoir . Beacon Press, Boston 1997
- Jürg Federspiel : The ballad of Typhoid Mary . Dutton, New York 1983
- Heinrich von Kleist : Penthesilea . Harper Collins, New York 2000
- Hans Erich Nossack : The End . Hamburg 1943. University of Chicago Press, London 2006
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
- DAAD fellowship from the Artists in Berlin program of the German Academic Exchange Service (1990-91)
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator Award for the translation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea (1999)
- The Modern Language Association's Lois Roth Award for the translation of Hans Erich Nossack's Der Untergang (2005)
- The ALTA National Translation Award (2007)
- The Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin (2008)
literature
- Two fathers from two worlds . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 26, 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Joel Agee in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joel Agee's website
- Short biography and reviews of works by Joel Agee at perlentaucher.de
- Reading sample (PDF; 549 kB) from Twelve Years - An American Youth in East Germany (2009) on the Carl Hanser Verlag website
- Vita on the Fischer-Verlag website
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ In the Houses of Fear , Junge World No. 13, March 27, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agee, Joel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |