Maggie Nelson

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Maggie Nelson (2016)

Maggie Nelson (* 1973 ) is an American author. Her books cannot be clearly assigned to a genre and combine prose , poetry , biography , theory and art criticism . Her previous publications include The Argonauts (2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), Bluets (2009), The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial (first published in 2007 , republished in 2016), and Women , the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007, winner of the Susanne M. Glassock Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarships), Something Bright, Then Holes (2007), Jane: A Murder (2005, finalist for the PEN ), The Latest Winter (2003) and Shiner (2001).

Life and career

Nelson studied with Annie Dillard at Wesleyan University , among others . She has taught in the Graduate Writing Program at New School, Wesleyan University, the School of Art and Design at the Pratt Institute, and CalArts . Nelson is currently Professor of English at USC .

Reception and awards

The book The Argonauts won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Criticism category and became a New York Times bestseller . The Art of Cruelty , a work of cultural, art and literary criticism, featured on the cover of the New York Times' Sunday Book Review and was listed as Notable Book of the Year by the NY Times . The book Bluets , an "album of written thoughts" about the color blue, was named by the Bookforum as one of the ten best books of the last 20 years.

Nelson received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016 , a Creative Capital Literature Fellowship in 2012 , a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 , a NEA Fellowship for Poetry, and an Andy Warhol Fellowship . In 2019 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

subjects

Nelsons writes on art, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, female desire, aesthetic theory and philosophy. In addition, she addresses some autobiographical aspects in her work. In the book The Red Parts she deals with the life and murder of her aunt Jane Mixer. In The Argonauts Nelson documents the testestoron therapy and double mastectomy of her partner Harry Dodge as well as the pregnancy with their child. In the red spots. She writes the autobiography of a trial about the murder of her aunt and the trial that took place more than three decades later.

Private life

Nelson is married to the artist Harry Dodge . The couple have one child together. Nelson is also the stepmother of Dodge's son from a previous relationship.

Publications in German

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilton As: Maggie Nelson's Many Selves . In: The New Yorker . April 11, 2016, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Laura Kipnis: Book Review - The Art of Cruelty - By Maggie Nelson . In: The New York Times . July 14, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Paul Laity: Maggie Nelson interview: 'People write to me to let me know that, in case I missed it, there are only two genders' . In: The Guardian . April 2, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  4. ^ CalArts Faculty / Staff Directory. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (American English).
  5. ↑ Hilton As: Maggie Nelson's Many Selves . In: The New Yorker . April 11, 2016, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  6. ^ Maggie Nelson> Ph.D. in Creative Writing & Literature> USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ 100 Notable Books of 2011 . In: The New York Times . November 21, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Hanna Engelmeier: Maggie Nelson's book about the color blue: Style got the blues . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 7, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed August 9, 2018]).
  9. ↑ The Oyster Review. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (English).
  10. ^ MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ Thomas Larson: Now, Where Was I? : On Maggie Nelson's Bluets . Northwestern University. January 24, 2011. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  12. ↑ Rachel Cooke: Maggie Nelson: 'There is no catharsis ... the stories we tell ourselves don't heal us' (en-GB) . In: The Observer , May 21, 2017. Retrieved September 23, 2017. 
  13. ^ The Guardian . Retrieved May 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Nelson, Maggie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California