Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American book and screenwriter.
Life
His novel The Hours (German: The Hours ) has been translated into 22 languages and won numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Faulkner Award. In 2002 this was filmed and shown with a star cast (including Nicole Kidman , Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore ). In 2003 the German version was released under the title The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity . The film adaptation, directed by Stephen Daldry , has won numerous awards, including the Academy Award ( Oscar ) for Nicole Kidman.
His novel A Home at the End of the World was successfully filmed in 2004 (with Colin Farrell, among others ). For this movie, Cunningham first worked on the script himself.
Michael Cunningham is Professor of Creative Writing at Brooklyn College in New York.
Awards
- 1989: Best American Short Stories
- 1995: Whiting Writer's Award
- 1996: Lambda Literary Award for Flesh and Blood
- 1998: PEN / Faulkner Award ( The Hours )
- 1999: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Award ( The Hours )
- 1999: Pulitzer Prize for Literature ( The Hours )
- 2003: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2011: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Works
- White Angel , short story 1989
- A home at the end of the world , Goldmann Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-442-73297-2 ; (Also published in 1994 under the title Five Miles to Woodstock )
- Flesh and Blood , Goldmann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-442-43272-3 .
- Kindred . 1995
- The hours , BtB / Goldmann, 2001, ISBN 3-442-72629-8 .
- The hours , audio book. Read by Gottfried John. Brigitte Starke Voices, The Men 4 CDs, Random House 2007
- Land's End. A walk in Provincetown , Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-630-87164-X .
- Helle Tage , Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, February 2006, ISBN 3-630-87225-5 .
- Into the night . Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-630-87353-4 .
- The Snow Queen: Roman . From the American. by Eva Bonné . Munich: Luchterhand, 2015
- A wild swan, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-641-17563-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Cunningham in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Cunningham in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Michael Cunningham in nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 11, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cunningham, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio , USA |