Mail Meloy

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Maile Meloy (born February 15, 1972 in Helena , Montana , USA ) is an American writer of short stories and novels .

Life

Meloy grew up in Helena, Montana; her younger brother Colin Meloy is now the lead singer of The Decemberists . While at Harvard , Meloy took a creative writing course from Richard Ford . Ford encouraged her to continue her studies with Geoffrey Wolff at the University of California at Irvine , where she eventually earned a Master of Fine Arts . During her studies in Irvine , Meloy also worked in Los Angeles as an assistant in the animation department at Disney .

Through her studies, Meloy got in touch with the important literary agent Amanda Urban , through whom a contract with the Scribner publishing house was concluded. In 2002 Meloy's first collection of short stories, Half in Love , was published, for which she received the PEN / Malamud Award from the PEN / Faulkner Foundation in 2003 . A year later, she made her debut novel, Liars and Saints , which became a bestseller and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction .

Her second novel, A Family Daughter , was published in 2006. A central part of his plot is the (fictional) creation of Liars and Saints , which thus becomes a kind of “book within a book”. Following its publication, Meloy received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 2009, Meloy re-released a collection of short stories, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It , which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both The New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times . Meloy's novel The Apothecary (from 2011) is aimed primarily at young readers.

Her latest novel Do Not Become Alarmed tells of three families on a cruise whose children disappear without a trace on a shore excursion.

Reviews

The portal femundo praised the novel "Keep Calm" (Original: Do Not Become Alarmed ) as a rapid genre mix between family novel and thriller:

“While you watch the odyssey of the missing children breathlessly, you get a glimpse into everyday life in Costa Rica ... A country in which some things are in a mess, but a lot also works, only more slowly - and above all differently - than it does Americans are used to. ... A finely watched novel that dissects the worries of the American middle class with subliminal sarcasm. Extremely exciting and very entertaining. "

- femundo.de

Works

Novels

  • Liars and saints. ( Liars and Saints. 2003). translated by Ursula-Maria Mössner. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5586-5 .
  • Daughter of a family. ( A Family Daughter. 2006). translated by Ursula-Maria Mössner. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5573-5 .
  • The Apothecary. 2011.
    • translated by Petra Knese: Elixirium: The dangerous legacy of the pharmacist . Coppenrath, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-649-61154-7 .
  • The Apprentices. with illustrations by Ian Schoenherr. GP Putnam, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-399-16245-9 .
  • Do Not Become Alarmed. 2017.
    • translated by Anna-Christin Kramer and Jenny Merling: Keep calm . No & But, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-0369-5776-0 .

Collections of short stories

  • The house at the end of the world: Stories. ( Half in Love: Stories. 2002). translated by Anke Knefel, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-45563-4 .
  • Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories. 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joshua Bodwell: The Rebel from Helena: An Interview with Maile Meloy on Fiction Writers Review, viewed November 20, 2011.
  2. ^ A b Catherine Elsworth: A writer's life: Maile Meloy . In: The Telegraph . March 12, 2006.
  3. ↑ Survival in Switzerland in Latin America. March 16, 2018, accessed May 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Meloy, Maile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Helena , Montana , USA