Josh Weil

Josh Weil (* 1976 in Virginia , USA ) is an American writer and university professor .

Life

Weil was born in the Appalachian Mountains in rural western Virginia. He published short stories, novellas and a novel (as of 2014). His smaller prose works have appeared in literary magazines such as Granta, One Story and Agni , and he has also contributed to The New York Times , Oxford American and Poets & Writers .

Weil taught at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio as a Distinguished Visiting Writer and was Tickner Writer-in-Residence at the Gilman School in Baltimore , Maryland . In 2012, Weil taught at the University of Mississippi in Oxford (Mississippi) as John & Renee Grisham Emerging Southern Writer and wrote another work there. In the summer semester of 2019 he was the Picador Professorship for Literature at the University of Leipzig.

Prizes and awards

• Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction , awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City
• Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award
• 5 Under 35 Award from the US National Book Foundation
• Fellowship in the Fulbright program
• Price of the Dana Foundation
• Awards at the Bread Loaf Writers 'Conference , Sewanee Writers' Conference, and MacDowell Colony
• 2015: Dayton Literary Peace Prize for The Great Glass Sea

Works

• The New Valley: Novellas . Grove Press, New York City, USA 2009, ISBN 978-0-8021-1891-2 .
  • The New Valley , short stories; translated by Stephan Kleiner. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9608-0 .
• Herd animals: An American novel , translated by Stephan Kleiner. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9579-3 .
• The Great Glass Sea , a novel. Grove Press, New York City, USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-8021-2215-5 .
  • German: The glass sea , translated by Stephan Kleiner. DuMont, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9797-1 .

Web links

• Author's biography (en.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Next Picador Professor Josh Weil | American Studies Leipzig. Retrieved March 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ The heart is an internal combustion engine in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 6, 2011, page V2 / 10
3. ^ Under the bell jar in FAZ from March 16, 2016, page 10