Kent Haruf

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Kent Haruf (born February 24, 1943 in Pueblo , Colorado ; died November 30, 2014 in Salida , Colorado) was an American writer.

Life

Kent Haruf was the son of a Methodist pastor. He graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University (NWU) in 1965 . In 1973 he did an MFA in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa .

Haruf worked in various activities and also came to Turkey as a member of the Peace Corps , where he taught English. He later lived in Salida with the family and worked as a high school teacher and then became an assistant professor of literature at NWU and visiting professor at Southern Illinois University .

All six of Haruf's novels are set in the fictional town of Holt on the Colorado prairie . His first novel, The Tie That Binds , was published in 1984 and received a Whiting Award . He also published short stories. The novel Plainsong was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1999 and became a bestseller in the United States. In 2006 Haruf received the Dos Passos Prize and in 2014 the Folio Prize . The novel Eventide was set up by Eric Schmiedl for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) in 2010 , the novel Benediction was also staged there in February 2015. Haruf's novel Our Souls at Night was published posthumously in 2015 and was filmed in 2017 with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in the leading roles .

Starting in 2017, a literary festival will be held annually in his honor in Haruf's hometown Salida.

Works

  • The Tie That Binds . New York 1984
  • Where You Once Belonged . New York 1990
  • Plainsong . New York 1999
  • Eventide . New York 2004
  • Benediction . New York 2013
  • Our Souls at Night . New York 2015
    • Our souls by night . Novel. Translated from American English by pociao. Diogenes, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-257-06986-0

literature

  • Joyce Carol Oates : Plainsong , Review, in: The New York Review of Books . 1999, No. 16, p. 30 (not used here)
  • Jeffrey J. Folks: Heartland of the imagination: conservative values ​​in American literature from Poe to O'Connor to Haruf . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2012 (not used here)
  • Francesca Wade: The Precious Ordinary , Review, in: Financial Times , June 20, 2015, p. 13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Yardley: Kent Haruf, Acclaimed Novelist of Small-Town Life, Is Dead at 71 , obituary, in: New York Times , December 2, 2014
  2. ↑ 2010 Colorado New Play Summit , at WorldCat
  3. ↑ Kent Haruf's “Our Souls at Night” enters the seller list , buchmarkt.de, April 12, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2017
  4. ↑ Complicated as normal . In: Der Spiegel . No.  19 , 2001 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Haruf, Kent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pueblo (Colorado)
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2014
Place of death Salida (Colorado)