Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943 as Marilynne Summers in Sandpoint , Idaho ) is an American novelist and essayist.
Life
Robinson studied at Pembroke College, the former women's college of Brown University, and received his PhD in English from the University of Washington in 1977 .
She wrote four major novels, Housekeeping (1980), Gilead (2004), Home (2008) and '' Purple '' (2014), for which she has received several awards. She has also published a number of non-fiction books as well as essays and articles in magazines such as Harper's Magazine , The Paris Review and The New York Times Book Review .
Robinson has been visiting professor at various colleges such as the University of Kent , Amherst College , the University of Massachusetts and Yale University . In 2010 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Robinson taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1991 to 2016 ; she lives in Iowa City .
Her older brother David Summers works as an art historian.
Robinson's works are still largely unknown in Germany, but the German publication of Lila (2015), the third volume of the Gilead trilogy, represents a big step towards the author's discovery in the German-speaking world, according to literary reviews in newspapers and radio.
Works
Novels
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Housekeeping . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1980, ISBN 0-374-17313-3 .
- The eye of the lake. German by Sabine Reinhardt. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-462-01655-5 .
- also as: house without a stop . Translated and revised by Sabine Reinhardt-Jost. edition five, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942374-23-1 .
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Gilead . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2004, ISBN 0-374-15389-2 .
- Gilead. Translated by Karl-Heinz Ebnet. Brendow, Moers 2006, ISBN 3-86506-152-4 .
- Gilead . Translated by Uda Strätling. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002459-6 .
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Home . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008, ISBN 978-0-374-29910-1 .
- Home . Translation of Uda Strätling. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018
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Purple . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2014, ISBN 978-0-374-18761-3 .
- Purple . Translated by Uda Strätling. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002430-5 .
Non-fiction
- Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1989.
- The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought . Picador, New York 1998.
- Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self . Terry Lectures. Yale UP, New Haven 2010.
- When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2012 [ For my brother David Summers, first and best of my teachers ].
- The Givenness of Things: Essays . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- What are we doing here? Essays . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Awards
- 1980 PEN Award for best novel for housekeeping , who is also the Pulitzer Prize nomination
- 1999 PEN / Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for The Death of Adam
- 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Gilead
- 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award / Fiction for Gilead
- 2005 Ambassador Book Award for Gilead
- 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Home
- 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for Home
- 2012 National Humanities Medal
- 2013 Park Kyung ni Literature Prize
- 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award / Fiction for Purple
- 2015 President Barack Obama visited Des Moines to meet her
- 2016 Shortlist of the International DUBLIN Literary Award with Lila
- 2016 Holbrooke Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
- 2016 Premio Autore Straniero of the Premio Mondello
literature
- Patrick O'Donnell et al. a. (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction. 2. Twentieth Century American Fiction . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2011, pp. 804 f.
- Hannes Bergthaller: Like a Ship to be Tossed: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping". In: Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford (Eds.): Culture, creativity and environment: new environmentalist criticism . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2007, pp. 75-97.
- Helga Beste: “What's that, crazy?”: On the function of crazy characters in John Kennedy Toole, Joseph Heller, Marilynne Robinson and Leslie Marmon Silko . WVT, Trier 2003. ( Dissertation . Heidelberg 2001)
Web links
- Literature by and about Marilynne Robinson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Marilynne Robinson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Marilynne Robinson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My Western Roots - Essay by Marilynne Robinson, 1993 , Northwest Schools of Literature at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.
- The Art of Fiction No. 198, Sarah Fay interviews Marilynne Robinson , in: The Paris Review 186, Fall 2008, accessed May 12, 2014
- Interview with ABC Radio National, (Australia) on October 31, 2008 (accessed April 29, 2013)
- - Interview on moreintelligentlife.com, 2008 (accessed April 29, 2013)
- - Interview with Marilynne Robinson in Religion and Ethics , March 18, 2005 (accessed April 29, 2013)
- The God Delusion - Article by Marilynne Robinson reprinted in Harper's Magazine , November, 2006 (accessed April 29, 2013)
- Essay: Marilynne Robinson's Psalms and Prophecy , in Open Letters Monthly, undated (English - accessed April 29, 2013)
- Interview and an excerpt from Gilead , in La Clé des langues, June 4, 2012 (accessed April 29, 2013)
- A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson ( Memento from December 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), by Sarah Flynn, Thomas King, and Adam O'Connor Rodriguez, PDF April 24, 2006 (accessed September 9, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ^ History & Literature of the Pacific Northwest: Marilynne Robinson, 1943 . In: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington . Retrieved April 13, 2008 (undated).
- ^ Rachel Lister: Marilynne Robinson (1947-). In: The Literary Encyclopedia . October 21, 2006, accessed June 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter R. (PDF; 508 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Manuela Reichart: Marilynne Robinson: “Purple” - discovery of a powerful narrator. Deutschlandradio Kultur. (on-line)
- ↑ Nicole Henneberg: Marilynne Robinson: House without a stop: Huckleberry Finn's unruly sister. FAZ.NET. (on-line)
- ^ Johann Hinrich Claussen: Obama meets favorite author. sueddeutsche.de, November 10, 2015, accessed on November 10, 2015. The conversation was documented by the New York Review of Books in the editions of November 5 and 19, 2015: Part 1 , Part 2
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Robinson, Marilynne |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Robinson, Marilynne Summers; Summers, Marilynne (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist and essayist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1943 |