Meg Wolitzer

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Meg Wolitzer (2011)

Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959 in Long Island , New York ) is an American author .

Life

Meg Wolitzer is the daughter of the author Hilma Wolitzer . She studied creative writing at Smith College and Brown University and graduated in 1981. She is married to writer Richard Panek and has two sons. She lives in New York City .

Wolitzer started writing while studying and published her first novel in 1982 .

She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and Skidmore College. Four of her books ( This Is Your Life , Surrender, Dorothy , The Interestings and The Wife ) were made into films. In 2012, Wolitzer summed up the status of female writing in an essay for the Sunday Book Review of the New York Times : In bookshops, the books of women writers are always placed on the second shelf for the not so important new publications, the publishers already have them decorated with book covers that you would classify as chick lit.

For Wolitzer, the essay also became the program for her own work: With The Interestings , she published a novel in 2013 that, in content and scope , ties in with the tradition of the Great American Novel , the great American social novel : “It is the book that I really do wanted to write [...] and I took a deep breath and did it. [...] I've tried to lift heavier weights. ”The novel received a lot of critical acclaim and marked a breakthrough for both Meg Wolitzer's popularity and her reputation as a serious writer.

In 2015 she was a member of the jury for The Extraordinary Book of the Children and Youth Program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Works (selection)

  • The Female Persuasion . London: Chatto & Windus, 2018.
  • Belzhar (2014).
  • The Interestings (2013).
  • The Uncoupling (2011).
  • The Ten-Year Nap (2008)
    • The ten year break . Translated from the English by Michaela Grabinger. DuMont, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-8321-8107-9 .
  • The Position (2005).
    • The position . From the American English by Werner Loch-Lawrence. DuMont, Cologne 2015.
  • The Wife (2003).
  • Surrender, Dorothy (1998).
    • Sara's friends . Novel. From the American English by Charlotte Breuer. Limes, Munich 1999.
  • Friends for Life (1994).
    • Inseparable . Novel. German by Elke Link. Goldmann, Munich 1996.
  • Nutcrackers: Devilishly Addictive Mind Twisters for the Insatiably Verbivorous (1991).
  • This Is Your Life (1988).
  • Hidden Pictures (1986).
  • Sleepwalking (1982).

Reviews

Critic's voices on the novel "The Female Principle":

"Meg Wolitzer wrote herself in the hearts of her readers with 'Die Interestanten'. Now she has again written a brilliant social novel that tells of feminism in Wolitzer's inimitable way: empathetic, funny and up close. "

- femundo.de

“It's a gentle novel. It flows pleasantly, told in a sympathetic and highly professional manner ... The book is not a feminist provocation. No J'accuse, no polemic, but rather a cleverly narrated review of a long journey whose end is not in sight. "

- Gabriele von Arnim : Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Reviews of other works:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Second Shelf. On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women , New York Times, March 30, 2012
  2. ↑ Wieland Freund : The Weightlifting Woman , in: The Literary World , August 30, 2014, p. 3
  3. ↑ Wieland Freund: "In a fairer world you would know me" . In: Die Welt from September 3, 2014.
  4. ^ Sarah Lyall: Why Now May (Finally) Be Meg Wolitzer's Moment . In: The New York Times, March 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ Faith Frank makes history. femundo.de, July 16, 2018, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ A cleverly told review of emancipation and feminism. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, July 17, 2018, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolitzer, Meg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Island , New York