Joshua Cohen (writer)
Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980 in Somers Point , New Jersey ) is an American writer.
Life
Joshua Cohen is descended on his father's side from German Jews from Bernkastel , on his mother's side from Jews from Hungary. He grew up in Atlantic City and attended a yeshiva as a teenager . He studied composition at the Manhattan School of Music . Between 2001 and 2007 he was the Eastern European correspondent for the English edition of Forward , based in Berlin . Cohen's literary reviews appear in Harper's Magazine , New York Times Book Review, and London Review of Books .
His novel Witz was put on the list of the "Best Book of 2010" by the weekly newspaper The Village Voice , and the short story band Four New Messages was nominated by The New Yorker on the list of "Best Book of 2012". The writer colleague Frank Schäfer expressed himself very reserved in the review of the German translation. In 2015 Ulrich Blumenbach was awarded the Zug translator grant for translating the novel Witz . Blumenbach also translated Cohen's debut solo for Schneidermann . For the transmission of the word games in Cohen's debut novel, they worked closely together to find an appropriate form in the German language.
Works (selection)
- The quorum . Stories. 2005
- Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed . Stories. 2007
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Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto . Novel. 2007
- Solo for tailor. Translated by Ulrich Blumenbach . Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-89561-626-6
- A Heaven of Others. 2008
- Joke . Novel. 2010
- Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge). Stories. 2010
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Four new messages . Stories. 2012
- Four new messages. Translated by Ulrich Blumenbach. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-625-9
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Book of Numbers . Novel. 2015
- Book of Numbers. Translator Robin Detje . Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-89561-627-3
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Moving Kings . Novel. 2017
- Order for moving kings. Translated by Ingo Herzke . Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-89561-628-0
Awards
- Pushcart Prize , 2012
- Matanel Prize in Jewish Literature, 2013
- Samuel Fischer guest professorship for literature in the winter semester 2017/2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Joshua Cohen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Joshua Cohen in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Joshua Cohen at perlentaucher.de
- Joshua Cohen , website
- Dan Elkind: The Wrong Heaven: Critic Joshua Cohen on His New Novel , in: The Forward , January 18, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannes Stein : "I steal from the Internet" , in: Die Literäre Welt , 23 August 2014, p. 3
- ↑ Best Book of 2012 , in: The New Yorker, December 2012
- ^ Qualification papers with theater thunder , in: taz , August 16, 2014
- ↑ Zug translator scholarship award winners from 1997 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jan Wiele: Shame is a concept of the past . Interview, in: FAZ , July 30, 2016, p. 16
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohen, Joshua |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cohen, Joshua Aaron (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Somers Point , New Jersey |