Lisa Halliday

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Lisa Halliday at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018
Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday (* 1977 ) is an American writer. She lives in Milan .

Life

Lisa Halliday grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts as a child of a working class family. Her "great-grandparents come from Italy, from a very small village in Campania". She studied at Harvard and later lived in New York and London . In 2011 she moved to Milan with her husband Theo, an Englishman, where she initially worked as a freelance editor and translator. She has a daughter who was born in 2017.

She processed her relationship with Philip Roth in her debut novel Asymmetry . She had met Roth while working for the Wylie Agency literary agency in New York.

Works (selection)

"Asymmetry"

Asymmetry is Lisa Halliday's first novel, for which she received a Whiting Award in the Fiction category in 2017 . The novel is also on the list of works on the SWR best list . The English original edition was published by Simon & Schuster in February 2018 . The German translation was published by Carl Hanser Verlag .

The novel contains two stories: The first part of the novel tells the love story of the young Alice and the older writer and Nobel Prize candidate Ezra Blazer. The second part describes the Kafkaesque interrogation situation in which Amar, a US-Iraqi doctoral student, finds himself at London Airport.

The asymmetry of the title can be discovered both in terms of content and form:

“A female story in the third person is followed by a male story in the first. A light series of impressionistic snapshots arranged in bold jumps in time are followed by melancholic autobiographical reflections on something torn between the USA and Iraq in a completely different set melody. "

Publications

  • Stump Louie. In: The Paris Review , issue 174, summer 2005. online
  • Asymmetry. 2018.

Web links

Commons : Lisa Halliday  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karen Krüger: The whole book was scary! Lisa Halliday in conversation. In: faz.net. July 30, 2018, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Herlinde Koelbl: "Then marry him!" In: Zeit Magazin. July 24, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  3. ^ Judith von Sternburg: When playing and in war. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. January 4, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ Peter Henning: Devotion as a stop. In: deutschlandfunk.de. September 24, 2018, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  5. ^ Search all winners. In: whiting.org. Whiting Foundation, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  6. ^ Anne Haeming: Just let the doorbell ring. In: spiegel.de. July 26, 2018, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  7. ^ Andreas Isenschmid: From Brooklyn to Baghdad. In Die Zeit , July 26, 2018, 31/2018. Accessed December 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Halliday, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION freelance editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1977