Matt Ruff

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Matthew Theron Ruff (born September 8, 1965 in Queens , New York ) is an American writer .

Life

According to a legend that he himself spread, he not only decided to write when he was five years old, but also put it into practice. In 1987 he graduated from Cornell University . His first novel was also his master's thesis , which he presented to Alison Lurie , a professor of "creative writing", who is not unknown internationally . The work entitled Fool on the Hill , which fluctuated between a conventional novel and a parody and was richly provided with elements of science fiction and fantasy , was a success. The second novel GAS The Trilogy of the Stadtwerke was able to build on this success. His third novel, a thriller, was published in 2003 under the title Set This House In Order in the original English. It is about people who have a dissociative identity disorder, which is sometimes portrayed in a humorous way. In August 2004 the German translation was published under the title Ich und die Andere . In the summer of 2007, his fourth novel Bad Monkeys was published in English. In February 2008 it appeared in Germany under the same name. In 2012, HarperCollins published his novel The Mirage , a parallel world story in which the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 by Christian fundamentalists in the Middle East are carried out. The novel was published in German in March 2014. In his 2016 novel Lovecraft Country , Matt Ruff tells the adventures of a black family in "Lovecraft Country" in New England, a place of the strictest racial laws in the USA in the mid-1950s. This book was filmed as a TV series in 2018.

“I have a friend who says my books are always about group dynamics . [...] My father is from Detroit , my mother is a missionary's daughter and grew up in South America , so my whole upbringing was a kind of multicultural experiment. That's why I like to bring together completely different personalities in my books, people and animals and other things that normally have nothing to do with each other, and then I see how they get along. "

- Matt Ruff : Deutschlandfunk

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ann L. Hackman: Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls . In: Psychiatric Services . 54, No. 12, December 2003, pp. 1660-1660. doi : 10.1176 / appi.ps.54.12.1660 .
  2. ↑ Heike Schwarz: Beware of the Other Side (s): Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction . transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-2488-9 , chap. 16 , p. 335-350 .
  3. ↑ Deutschlandfunk, May 6, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Ruff, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruff, Matthew Theron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York