Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver (born May 18, 1957 in Gastonia , North Carolina ) is an American writer and journalist . She is best known for her eighth novel We need to talk about Kevin , which was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and was made into a film in 2011 with Tilda Swinton in the leading role.

Life

Lionel Shriver was born under the name Margaret Ann Shriver. Her family was very religious, her father a Presbyterian pastor. At the age of 15, Shriver informally changed her first name to Lionel. She was of the opinion that her female first name Margaret Ann would not suit her. She chose the actually male first name Lionel because, from her point of view, it would suit her as a tomboy.

After graduating from high school, Shriver attended Barnard College and Columbia University , where she earned a BA and then an MFA . She has lived temporarily in Nairobi , Bangkok and Belfast . She currently lives in London. She is married to jazz drummer Jeff Williams .

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Shriver had already written seven novels, six of which were published by a publisher, before she had her big break with the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin . She herself said that after years of professional disappointment in which she was denied recognition, this was her last attempt. In 2005, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction for We Need to Talk About Kevin , a novel that is both a thriller and a study of maternal ambivalence and its role in a son's rampage that resulted in the death of nine people.

Shriver is also a journalist for newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal , the Financial Times , The New York Times , The Economist and Radio Ulster's Talkback program in Belfast. From 2005 to 2015 she wrote a column for the British newspaper Guardian on topics such as the role of mothers in Western societies, British government policy and the importance of libraries for society. When asked why she wrote about a novel about a teenage boy running rampant and her relationship with his mother, she said:

“I'm often asked if anything special happened when I ... wrote Kevin ; did I have some enlightenment or experience that changed everything? The fact is, Kevin fits in with my other work. There's nothing special about ... Kevin . It only deals with a topic that was ripe for discussion and miraculously found a reading audience. "

Shriver's thirteenth novel The Mandibles: A Family, 2029 - 2047 (2016, dt. An American Family , 2018) brought her allegations of racism and cultural appropriation , which they rejected in a speech at the Brisbane Writers Festival in 2016.

Novels

  • The Female of the Species (1986)
  • Checker and the Derailleurs (1987)
  • The Bleeding Heart (1990)
  • Ordinary Decent Criminals (1992)
  • Game Control (1994)
  • A Perfectly Good Family (1996)
  • Double Fault (1997)
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003)
  • The Post-Birthday World (2007)
  • So Much for That (2010)
  • The New Republic (2012)
  • Big Brother: A Novel (2013)
  • The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (2016)
  • The Standing Chandlier (2017)
  • Property (2018)

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Panellist. Lionel Shriver. ABC.net . Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ Lionel Shriver. Novellist (PDF) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Lionel Shriver at HarperCollins . Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ The Guardian column ( Memento of March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Tara Brady: Talking about Kevin. The Irish Times . October 21, 2011, accessed February 9, 2018.
  6. ^ Lionel Shriver's full speech: 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad'. The Guardian . September 13, 2016, accessed February 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Shriver, Lionel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shriver, Margaret Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Gastonia , North Carolina