Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller (born July 24, 1978 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American writer.
Career
Miller grew up in New York and Philadelphia . She studied Classical Philology at Brown University and graduated with a BA in 2000 and an MA in 2001 . Since then she has been teaching Latin and Greek at high schools, most recently in Cambridge, Mass.
After she had written ten years because she published in September 2011 her debut novel The Song of Achilles (German: The Song of Achilles ). The novel tells the love story between Achilles and Patroclus . Miller went back to Homer's Iliad . She was inspired by classical texts by Ovid , Virgil , Sophocles , Apollodorus of Athens , Euripides and Aeschylus .
In May 2012 Madeline Miller was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction for this. In the 17-year history of the award, she was only the fourth writer to receive her debut novel.
On April 10, 2018, her second novel Circe (German: Ich bin Circe ) was published, which is also based on Greek mythology . Here, too, a piece by Homer was the inspiration, namely the Odyssey . The feminist reinterpretation of the myth from the perspective of Circe tries to make its emotionality tangible.
Works
- The Song of Achilles London: Bloomsbury, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4088-1603-5
- Circe: A Novel , New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. ISBN 978-0-316-55634-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Madeline Miller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mark Brown: Orange prize for fiction 2012 goes to Madeline Miller. May 30, 2012, accessed November 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Sam Marsden: Orange Prize for Fiction goes to Madeline Miller's story of a love affair overshadowed by the Trojan War . May 30, 2012, ISSN 0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed November 16, 2018]).
- ↑ Jane Ciabattari: Madeline Miller Discusses 'The Song of Achilles' . In: The Daily Beast . March 21, 2012 ( thedailybeast.com [accessed November 16, 2018]).
- ↑ Circe is officially out! madelinemiller.com, April 10, 2018
- ↑ Aida Edemariam: Circe by Madeline Miller review - myth, magic and single motherhood. April 21, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, Madeline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |