John Niven

John Niven (2014)

John Niven (born 1966 in Irvine , North Ayrshire , Scotland ) is a Scottish author .

Life

John Niven attended the University of Glasgow until 1991 and then worked for various record companies, later at PolyGram in marketing and as an A&R manager. As a manager at London Records , he turned down the band Coldplay in 1997 on the grounds that they were " radioheads for idiots". In 2002 he left the record industry to devote himself to writing. Niven now lives in Buckinghamshire, England .

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In 2005 his first work Music from Big Pink was published . In this novella, set in the second half of the 1960s and based on real events and people, he describes the creation of The Band's legendary album Music from Big Pink from the perspective of a small, fictional drug dealer who was then in the circle of Bob Dylan and The Band lived. In the afterword of the German edition, Niven writes that Robbie Robertson , the band's guitarist, is said to have said about the book: “Was that guy there?” With his novel Kill your friends , in which John Niven, who also plays guitar himself , worked through his experience as an A&R manager in the music industry, he made his breakthrough. As a result, his works were also published in German by Heyne Verlag .

John Niven defused his religion-critical novel God Preserve , published in 2012, before publication under pressure from the publishers.

In 2015, the novel Kill your friends , made into a film by director Owen Harris with Nicholas Hoult in the lead role, was shown at the opening of the Fantasy Filmfest 2015 . In the film's Moritz Bleibtreu seen in a supporting role.

Books

• 2005 Music from Big Pink. Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-826-41771-8 .
  • German Music from Big Pink , Heyne Verlag , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-67622-0 .
• 2008 Kill your friends. William Heinemann, ISBN 978-0-434-01799-7 .
  • German Kill your friends , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-67544-5 .
• 2009 The Amateurs. William Heinemann, ISBN 978-0-434-01798-0 .
  • German Coma , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-67577-3 .
• 2011 The Second Coming. William Heinemann, ISBN 978-0-434-01956-4 .
  • German God preserve , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-67597-1 .
• 2012 Cold Hands. William Heinmann, ISBN 978-0-434-02212-0 .
  • German The Commandment of Vengeance , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-67584-1 .
• 2013 Straight White Male. William Heinmann, ISBN 978-0-434-02209-0 .
  • German Straight White Male , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-26848-7 .
• 2015 Sunshine Cruise Company , William Heinmann, ISBN 978-0-434-02318-9 .
  • German Old School , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-26945-3 .
• 2017 No Good Deed , William Heinmann, ISBN 978-0-434-02329-5 .
  • German old friends , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-26944-6 .
• 2018 Kill 'Em All , William Heinmann, ISBN 978-1-785-15157-6
  • German Kill 'Em All , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-27157-9 .
• 2020 The F * ck-It List , William Heinmann, ISBN 978-0-434-02326-4

All editions published so far in German have been translated by Stephan Glietsch.

Film adaptations

• Kill Your Friends , 2016

literature

• Karsten Kruschel : God preserve , in The Science Fiction Year 2012 , edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Sascha Mamczak and Sebastian Pirling, Heyne, Munich 2012, pp. 385–387. ISBN 978-3-453-52972-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Ambition is everything that counts" - John Niven knows how to become a pop star Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 8, 2008 (with photo)
2. ↑ John Niven on "Tasteless Fools" Die Welt, May 8, 2008
3. ↑ Scandal author John Niven "They will hunt us all!" Spiegel Online, October 31, 2011
4. ↑ Kill your friends (2015) IMDb (en.)
5. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database, accessed June 25, 2020 . 

Web links

• Information about the author at Heyne-Verlag
• Literature by and about John Niven in the catalog of the German National Library (John Niven)