Molly McCloskey

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Molly McCloskey (* 1964 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA ) is an American author who has lived in Ireland since 1989 .

Life

McCloskey is the daughter of the well-known basketball coach Jack McCloskey and spent the first years of her life in North Carolina , USA, where her father trained the Wake Forest Demon Deacons . After her father coached the Portland Trail Blazers in Portland, Oregon in 1972 , the family moved to Oregon . She later studied at Saint Joseph's Catholic University in Philadelphia with the help of an athletic scholarship .

In 1989 McCloskey moved to Ireland, got married there and settled in Sligo . In 1998 she returned for some time back to Philadelphia, but then went to Dublin to there at University College Dublin diploma as Master of Philosophy to make. She still lives in Dublin today (2012).

Mc Closkey is a regular reviewer for The Irish Times and publishes articles for The Guardian , Elle (magazine) and The Dublin Review . In 2009/2010 she was a visiting professor at Trinity College in Dublin and taught creative writing as part of the Master of Philosophy program . She works for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ireland in the Rapid Response Corps , which is deployed in crisis areas in emergency situations. For example, she worked in Kosovo and Kenya at the United Nations base , which coordinated aid for Somalia .

Publications

  • 1997: Solomon's Seal .
  • 2002: The Beautiful Changes .
  • 2006: Protection .
    • 2009: translated into German by Hans-Christian Oeser: How we live. Novel. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 3-86521-329-4 .
  • 2011: Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother.
    • 2011: Translated into German by Hans-Christian Oeser: Liebe , Erzählungen, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-86930-232-4 .
  • German by Hans Christian Oeser: Starke Sonne, Schwacher Mond , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86930-943-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A course in which one learns to live. In: FAZ . from August 20, 2011, p. Z5.
personal data
SURNAME McCloskey, Molly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States