Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban (born June 14, 1942 in Norfolk , England ) is a British writer .
Life and work
Raban studied at the University of Kingston upon Hull . He lives in Seattle today . Raban is best known as a travel writer. In doing so, he succeeds in intensively describing the history and the landscape. He writes for The New York Review of Books , The Guardian and The Independent , among others . The writer has received numerous literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award , the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature , the PEN / West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington .
Works
Translated into German are:
- Mississippi: Novel of a Journey. List, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-471-78540-X .
- God the Man and Mrs. Thatcher: A Critical Examination of Mrs. Thatcher's address to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Steidl, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-88243-148-2 .
- New World: An American Journey. From the English by Hans-Jürgen Heckler, List, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-471-78548-5 .
- Bad Land: An American Adventure . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-458-16967-9 .
- The author describes the fate of the settlers in the 20th century on the basis of a trip through Montana .
- Passage to Juneau: . From the English by Sabine Hedinger . Mare-Buchverl., Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-936384-82-7 .
- The content is a one-hand trip in an 11 meter long sailboat from Seattle along the west coast of Canada to Juneau in Alaska.
items
- Yemen: land at the right hand of Allah. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979, 9, pp. 8-34. Informative report after the murder of Ibrahim al-Hamdi : "Weakened by civil wars, overwhelmed by traffic, paralyzed by the qat drug, the country" to the right of Mecca "is dawning into a gloomy future." ISSN 0342-8311
Web links and sources
- Literature by and about Jonathan Raban in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Ingendaay: It is better to experience everything for yourself. His works are a mixture of logbook, autobiography and narrated cultural history . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 11, 2012, p. 32
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raban, Jonathan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norfolk |