Michel Faber

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Michel Faber (born April 13, 1960 in The Hague , Netherlands ) is an English-speaking writer .

Life

At the age of 7, he and his parents moved to Australia , leaving a half-brother in a home for difficult children. Faber found it difficult to cope with emigration and had to be treated in a hospital. He grew up in the Boronia and Bayswater suburbs of Melbourne .

He studied English in Melbourne. The focus of his studies was on the literature of the 19th century . At the beginning of the 1980s , he and his first wife tried to emigrate to Great Britain , but failed and experienced a brief period of homelessness there before they returned to Australia. Shortly thereafter, however, this marriage ended, and the first work on his novel "The Crimson Petal" began, while he kept himself afloat as a carer and with various other activities. Heat and light in Australia caused severe migraines , so that in 1992 he emigrated again to Great Britain with his second wife, Eva Youren - this time successfully - and settled with her and her two sons in a converted train station near the Scottish city ​​of Inverness . For his previous publications he has been nominated for numerous prizes, including the Whitbread First Novel Award 2000 for "Die Weltenwanderin" ( Under The Skin ) and he has received several awards. After twenty years of preparatory work, the novel "The Crimson Petal" was published in 2002.

Based on his novel Die Weltenwanderin ( Under the Skin ), the film Under the Skin was made in 2013 .

bibliography

  • Under the Skin , German Die Weltenwanderin , novel, ISBN 3462033980
  • The Courage Consort , German: The Unfinished , Novelle, ISBN 3471775625
  • The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps , German: One hundred and ninety-nine steps , novella, ISBN 3546003918
  • Some Rain Must Fall , short stories
  • The Crimson Petal and the White , dt .: The Crimson Petal and the White , ISBN 3548604781
  • The Fahrenheit Twins
  • The Unfinished , Roman, List-Verlag
  • The Book of Strange New Things , dt .: The Book of strange new things , Kein & Aber, 2018, ISBN 978-3036957791

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personal data
SURNAME Faber, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH The Hague , Netherlands