Nell zinc

Nell Zink, 2018

Nell Zink (born 1964 in California ) is an American writer and media scientist .

Life

Zinc grew up in the state of Virginia . Her literary talent was already noticed in high school. She attended the Stuart Hall School in Staunton and the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg , where she graduated with a BA. In 1993 she founded the Fanzine Animal Review in Philadelphia , which was published until 1997. Here musicians, among others, had their say and reported about their pets or favorite animals. Zink worked as a secretary for the Colgate-Palmolive group and as a technical draftsman in Tel Aviv before moving to Germany in 2000 , where she did her doctorate in media studies at the University of Tübingen in 2008 . Her dissertation is entitled “Portable Music and the Scalable Self. Performativity in Music Journalism and Interdisciplinary Music Analysis ". She also worked for the Schwäbisches Tagblatt and later as a translator for the Zeitenspiegel agency. Zink has lived in the small town of Bad Belzig in Brandenburg since 2013 .

Zinc had been involved in nature conservation since she was a child. She wrote a reply to an ornithological article about migratory birds in the Mediterranean, which the American author Jonathan Franzen had published in the New Yorker , because it had not mentioned the Balkans and the work of Martin Schneider-Jacoby , which she translated into English. From this a correspondence developed between the two, and Franzen urged Zink to publish himself.

Zink wrote her debut novel "The Wallcreeper" within a few weeks. Zink, who could not benefit from Franzen's contacts with renowned publishers, sold the manuscript to the Dorothy Press, a small publisher, for $ 300. In 2014 the book made it onto the New York Times list of “100 notable books of 2014” . She was signed by Franzen's agent, who was able to sell the rights to the book in the UK and Germany. Her second novel "Mislaid" was published by Ecco Press , a major New York publishing house. The novel was on the longlist of the National Book Award in 2015 and was published in 2019 under the title Virginia in German.

Works (selection)

• The Wallcreeper. Dorothy, St. Louis 2014, ISBN 978-0-9897607-1-3 .
  • The wall creeper. Translated by Thomas Überhoff, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-07654-2 .
• Mislaid. Ecco Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-06-236477-7 .
  • Virginia , translated by Michael Kellner , Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-07672-6 .
• Nicotine . Fourth Estate, 2016
  • Nicotine. Translated by Michael Kellner, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-07670-2 .
• Doxology , Ecco Press, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-062-87778-9 .
  • The Song of Songs. Translated by Tobias Schnettler, Rowohlt, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-498-07671-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nell Zink in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Nell Zink in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Nell Zink , at Rowohlt Verlag
• Konstantin Richter: A very rare bird , in: Welt am Sonntag , March 13, 2016, p. 63
• Ilka Piepgras: I was what is called behavioral problems today , report, in: Die Zeit , March 30, 2016
• Short biography and reviews of works by Nell Zink at perlentaucher.de
• Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and personal questions from January 13, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ken Kalfus : Radical chic . Review, in: Financial Times , October 8, 2016, p. 10