Max Porter (writer)

Max Porter (born 1981 in High Wycombe ) is a British writer.

Life

Max Porter grew up in High Wycombe and attended school there. He studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London (MA). He gave up his doctoral project and worked as a bookseller and in 2009 received a “Young Bookseller of the Year Award”. Porter has worked as a publishing editor at Granta Books since 2012 . He and his family moved from London to Bath .

Porter published his first novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers , in 2015 , which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize ; In 2016 the book won the International Dylan Thomas Prize . His second novel Lanny was nominated for the Booker Prize 2019.

Works

• Grief is the Thing with Feathers . 2015
  • Grief is the thing with feathers . Translation: Uda Strätling, Matthias Göritz . Hanser Berlin, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24956-1 .
• Lanny . London: Faber, 2019
  • Lanny . Translation by Uda Strätling, Matthias Göritz. Kein & Aber Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0369-5793-7 .

literature

• Doug Battersby: Village People . Review, in: Financial Times, February 23, 2019, p. L&A 10

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Porter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Max Porter in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Sarah Crown: Max Porter: 'The experience of the boys in the novel is based on my dad dying when I was six' , Interview, The Guardian, September 12, 2015
• Lucy Scholes: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter review - a lyrical study of loss . Review, The Guardian, Sept. 13, 2015
• Max Porter , on no and buts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Blöchl: Schuppenwurz and everyday sound. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Max Porter at Granta
3. ↑ Max Porter. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .