Michael Nava

Michael Nava (born September 16, 1954 in Stockton , CA , USA ) is an American lawyer and writer .

life and work

Nava was born in the small town of Stockton in San Joaquin County near San Francisco and grew up in Sacramento . In 1981 he received his law degree from Stanford University , where he had met his partner, Bill Weinberger, the year before . The two initially ran a joint law firm in Palo Alto until they relocated to Los Angeles in 1984 .

In 1986 he published his first novel under the title The little death (German: Der kleine Tod ). After seven volumes, the novel cycle around the gay lawyer Henry Rios was completed in 2001. Nava has been practicing in San Francisco since 1995 . There he not only works as a lawyer, but also fights publicly for recognition and equality of homosexuals in the USA.

Nava received the Lambda Literary Award for five of his novels :

• 1989 for Goldenboy in the categories Gay men's Mystery / Science Fiction and Gay men's Small Press Book Award
• 1991 for Howtown in the category Gay men's mystery
• 1993 for The Hidden Law in the category Gay men's mystery
• 1997 for Death of Friends in the category Gay men's mystery
• 2002 for Rag and Bone in the Gay men's mystery category

All novels were translated into German and published by Argument Verlag in Hamburg .

Works

Novels

• Henry Rios
  • Volume 1: The little death . 1986 (German: Der kleine Tod . 1994, ISBN 3-88619-901-0 )
  • Volume 2: Goldenboy . 1988 (German: Goldjunge . 1995, ISBN 3-88619-903-7 )
  • Volume 3: How Town . 1990 (German: City of Honor ; 1st edition: In a city so nice . 1996, ISBN 3-88619-911-8 )
  • Volume 4: The hidden law . 1992 (German: The inner law . 1997, ISBN 3-88619-918-5 )
  • Volume 5: The death of friends . 1996 (German: death proximity . 1998, ISBN 3-88619-930-4 )
  • Volume 6: The burning plain . 1997 (German: Burned Earth . 1999, ISBN 3-88619-940-1 )
  • Volume 7: Rag and Bone . 2001 (German: The Long Night . 2001, ISBN 3-88619-968-1 )

Short story collection

• Finale . 1989

Non-fiction

• Created equal: why gay rights matter to America . 1994

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Nava in the catalog of the German National Library