Jon McGregor

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Jon McGregor (born 1976 in Bermuda ) is a British writer.

Life

McGregor grew up in Norwich and Thetford (Norfolk) and studied Media Technology and Production at Bradford University . He lives in Nottingham .

In 2002 he made it to the finals for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut "After the Rain" (original: If nobody speaks of remarkable things), written at the age of 26, and in 2003 won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Prize . In 2007 "So oder so" (So Many Ways to Begin) followed, and in 2010 the University of Nottingham made him an honorary doctorate. In 2011 he created "Even the dogs", which in 2012 received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award . In 2012 "This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You" was released. For "Reservoir 13" he received the Costa Book Award in 2017 in the "Roman" category. The novel was published in German in 2018. Stefan Mesch called it a "masterpiece".

Works (selection)

  • If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things . Bloomsbury, London 2002
    • After the rain: Roman . Translation by Anke Caroline Burger. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-608-93732-9
  • So Many Ways to Begin . Bloomsbury, London 2006
    • Either way: Roman . Translation by Anke Caroline Burger. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-93767-1
  • Even the dogs . Bloomsbury, London 2010
    • Last the dogs: Roman . Translation by Anke Caroline Burger. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-8270-0980-7
  • This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You . Bloomsbury, London 2012
  • Reservoir 13 . HarperCollins, London 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/jon-mcgregor-speicher-13-die-kollektiv-psyche-eines-dorfs.1270.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=409979
personal data
SURNAME McGregor, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bermudas