Karen Russell

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Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981 in Miami , Florida ) is an American writer.

Life

Karen Russel graduated from Senior High School in Coral Gables , Florida. She studied Spanish at Northwestern University in Evanston , Illinois , and fiction at Columbia University in New York . She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College , Pennsylvania . In spring 2012 she was Mary Ellen of the Heyden Fiction Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin .

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Her stories and essays have appeared in the literary magazines Conjunctions , Five Fingers Review , Granta , The New Yorker , Oxford American , Tin House and Zoetrope: All-Story , among others . Her first book publication, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves in 2007 , contains ten short stories. Her second collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove , was published in 2013 and contains eight other short stories. Her short story The Hox River Window (first published in 2011 in Zeotrope: All Story ; included in Vampires in the Lemon Grove under the title Proving Up ) received the National Magazine Award in the Fiction category in 2012 . She expanded the story Ava Wrestles the Alligator into her first novel, Swamplandia!

Swamplandia! is about the breakup of a family that a run-down on alligators - Wrestling specialized leisure attraction in the Everglades or business operates. The novel was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2012 together with Denis Johnson's Train Dreams and David Foster Wallace's The Pale King ( posthumously ) . However, the jury, consisting of Susan Larson, Maureen Corrigan and Michael Cunningham , could not make a decision, so the prize was not awarded this year. Translations of Swamplandia! published in German (translated by Simone Jakob), French (translated by Valérie Malfoy), Italian (translated by Clara Nubile), Catalan (translated by Marta Pera Cucurell) and Spanish (translated by Isabel Margelí Bailo).

Works

  • St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves . Vintage, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-307-27667-4 . (Short story collection)
    • German-language edition: Sleeping institution for dream disturbed people . Translated by Malte Krutzsch. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0369-5513-1 .
  • Swamplandia! Vintage, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-27668-1 . (Novel)
    • German language edition: Swamplandia . Translated by Simone Jakob. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5514-8 .
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove . Knopf, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-307-95723-8 . (Short story collection)
    • German-language edition: Vampires in the lemon grove . Translated by Malte Krutzsch. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-0369-5674-9 .
  • Sleep donation . Atavist Books, Brooklyn 2014, ISBN 978-1-937-89428-3 . Only as an e-book . A paperback edition was published in Brazilian Portuguese in 2016 by Galera Record .
  • Orange World and Other Stories . Knopf, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-525-65613-5 . (Short story collection)

Awards

  • 2005: Transatlantic Review / Henfield Foundation Award
  • 2006: Nomination for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for the short story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
  • 2011: Bard College Bard Fiction Prize for the short story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
  • 2011: Inclusion of Swamplandia! in the New York Times list of the five best novels of 2011
  • 2012: New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award for Swamplandia!
  • 2012: National Magazine Award in the Fiction Category for The Hox River Window
  • 2012: Shirley Jackson Award in the Novelette category for Reeling for the Empire
  • 2013: MacArthur Fellowship

Web links

Commons : Karen Russell  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview in the 20 Under 40 series of The New Yorker magazine on June 14, 2010 (English)
  2. ^ Karen Russell, Coral Gables Author of "Swamplandia!", Snubbed For Fiction Pulitizer . Article April 16, 2012 by Amanda McCorquodale in the online newspaper The Huffington Post (English)
  3. ^ Karen Russell on the website of the American Academy in Berlin
  4. ↑ Pulitzer Prize board has shirked its duty . Article by Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph, April 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Nominations for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2006 in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
  6. ^ The 10 Best Books of 2011 . Article in the New York Times on November 30, 2011 (English). The other novels selected were The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach , The Stop ( 11/22/63 ) by Stephen King , The Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson and The Tiger 'Wife by Téa Obendet .
  7. ^ Karen Russell Wins NYPL's Young Lions Award . Report in the journal Publishers Weekly from May 15, 2012 (English)
  8. ↑ Winner of the Shirley Jackson Awards 2012 on locusmag.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Russell, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami