Kevin Brockmeier

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Kevin Brockmeier, 2007 at the Arkansas Literacy Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Kevin John Brockmeier (born December 6, 1972 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) is an American writer. He has published short stories and some short novels and children's books .

He was first known through short stories in renowned magazines such as The New Yorker and McSweeney's . He has already received numerous awards for this. His most recent short novel Stadt der Toten (Original: The Brief History of the Dead ) is the expansion of a short story of the same name published on September 8, 2003 in The New Yorker , which practically represented the first chapter.

Awards

  • O. Henry Prize : 2002 for The Ceiling in McSweeney's (First Prize), 1999 for These Hands in The Georgia Review and 2005 for The Brief History of the Dead in The New Yorker .
  • Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award
  • Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award
  • James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

bibliography

Novels
  • City of Names (2002)
  • The Truth About Celia (2004)
  • Grooves: A Kind of Mystery (2006)
  • The Brief History of the Dead (2006)
    • German: The city of the dead. Luchterhand (Luchterhand Collection # 2079), 2006, ISBN 3-630-62079-5 .
  • The Illumination (2011)
Collections
  • Things That Fall from the Sky (2002)
  • The View from the Seventh Layer (2008)
Short stories

2002:

  • Apples (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • The Ceiling (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • The House at the End of the World (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • The Jesus Stories (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • The Light through the Window (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • The Passenger (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • Small Degrees (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • Space (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • These Hands (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )
  • Things That Fall from the Sky (2002, in: Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky )

2003:

  • The Green Children (2003, in: Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link and Terri Windling (Eds.): The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection )
  • The Brief History of the Dead (in: The New Yorker, September 8, 2003 )

2007:

  • A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets (2007, in: Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer (Eds.): Best American Fantasy )

2008:

  • The Air Is Full of Little Holes (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • Andrea Is Changing Her Name (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • A Fable Containing a Reflection the Size of a Match Head in Its Pupil (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • A Fable Ending in the Sound of a Thousand Parakeets (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • A Fable with a Photograph of a Glass Mobile on the Wall (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • Home Videos (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device: A Choose-Your-Own Adventure Story (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • The Lady with the Pet Tribble (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • The Lives of the Philosophers (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • The View from the Seventh Layer (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )
  • The Year of Silence (2008, in: Kevin Brockmeier: The View from the Seventh Layer )

2014:

  • The Invention of Separate People (2014, in: Unstuck, # 3 )
Anthologies (as editor)
  • Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy Volume III (2010; with Matthew Cheney)

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Brockmeier, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockmeier, Kevin John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Rock , Arkansas