Keith Lowe (writer)

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Keith Lowe, 2013

Keith Lowe (* 1970 in London ) is a British author and historian .

Life

Lowe grew up in Hampstead (London) and studied English literature at the University of Manchester . He worked 12 years as a history editor at the British publisher Cassell . In 2010 he gave up this job and became a full-time writer. His books have been translated into German, Swedish, Japanese, Serbian, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Portuguese, Estonian, Norwegian, Russian and Slovenian.

His first novel, Tunnel Vision (2001), tells the story of a man challenged to visit every station on the London Underground in a single day and was shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award. His second novel, New Free Chocolate Sex (2005) is about the ruthless world of chocolate marketing. The novel describes the hostile relationship between the board of directors of a chocolate company and a journalist who are locked together in a chocolate factory for a weekend.

Lowe has written two history books on World War II and its aftermath. Inferno (2007) describes Operation Gomorrah , the bombing of Hamburg with incendiary bombs by the British and American forces in 1943, which destroyed the city and claimed around 40,000 civilian victims. His latest book, Savage Continent (2012), is a historical account of Europe as a result of World War II, particularly the lawlessness, chaos and unbridled violence that gripped the continent from 1944 to 1949. In this book Lowe writes that the war did not end cleanly after the official armistice in 1945, but that it continued in various forms for several years. It covers a number of controversial issues such as post-war revenge, ethnic cleansing and the many civil wars that have taken place in Europe.

Awards

  • 2013 Hessell-Tittman Prize for Savage Continent

Works (selection)

  • All along the line. Novel. Translated from the English by Klaus Varrelmann and Annette von der Weppen, Piazza, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-19802-6 (Original: Tunnel vision: a novel , Pocket Books, New York 2001, ISBN 0-09-941668-9 . )
  • New free chocolate sex: a novel , Atria Books, New York 2005, ISBN 0-74-348209-3 .
  • Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg , Viking, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-670-91557-6 .
  • The wild continent: Europe in the years of anarchy 1943–1950. Translated from English by Stephan Gebauer and Thorsten Schmidt, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-608-94858-5 (Original: Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II , St. Martin's Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-670-91746-4 .)
  • Fear and Liberation: How the Second World War shaped humanity to this day . Translated from English by Stephan Gebauer and Thorsten Schmidt, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felicity Capon: Keith Lowe awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history. In: The Daily Telegraph . April 8, 2013, accessed May 30, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Lowe, Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH London