Nathan Hill

Nathan Hill

Nathan Hill (* 1978 in Cedar Rapids , Iowa ) is an American writer whose first novel The Nix was published in 2016.

Life

Hill grew up in the American Midwest and later lived in New York and New England . He earned a BA in English and Journalism from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst .

After working as a journalist on newspapers and magazines, Hill went to the Academy of American Poets . He then taught at Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Hill published short stories in various literary magazines and finally his first novel, which was published in 2016 under the title "Geister" in German and 19 other translations. The novel, widely acclaimed by literary critics and awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the “First Work” category in 2016, describes American society, especially during the unrest of 1968 in Chicago against the backdrop of the Democratic nomination convention and the 2011 primaries in the context of a fictitious right-wing populist candidate for the Republican presidential candidacy .

Hill is on leave from university to devote himself to writing and lives in Naples, Florida.

Works

• Ghosts . Translation by Werner Loch-Lawrence , Katrin Behringer. Piper-Verlag, Munich 2016

reception

“Nathan Hill has written an epoch-making novel, full of angular characters whose paths have crossed over the course of a good eight hundred pages. [...] Hill is a good observer and a master of pointed and snappy dialogues. "

- femundo.de

Awards

• Los Angeles Times Book Prize for 2016 debut works for The Nix

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/Nathan-Hill-Geister,geister144.html
2. ↑ Marie Schmidt : Nathan Hill: An attack on the governor . In: The time . No. 50/2016 ( online ).
3. ↑ Anne Haeming: Fictional attack on presidential candidates: One throws the first pebble. In: Spiegel Online . October 4, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 . 
4. ↑ http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/nathan-hill-geister-eine-geschichte-der-gesellschaftlichen.1270.de.html?dram:article_id=370874
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ From the Chicago Seven to Occupy. femundo.de, accessed on December 1, 2017 .