Padgett Powell

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Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida ) is an American writer.

Life

Padgett Powell's first novel Edisto was published in advance in 1984 in excerpts in The New Yorker , he was nominated for the American Book Award . Powell received a Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize . He teaches creative writing at the University of Florida .

Powell has published several volumes of short stories and (as of 2017) six novels. Four of the novels and a volume of short stories were translated into German by Harry Rowohlt . According to Zoe Hagen in 2014, Powell is not interested in the beautiful, the good or the understanding. Powell's stories are an immense challenge for readers with time who want to decipher the absurd or simply nonsensical sentences. Among the last questions in his questionnaire, he asks what you, the reader, would do if Jimi Hendrix had invited himself to a session with him, or if he tried to find out which cuddly toy Albert Einstein was keeping in his jacket pocket: would you be embarrassed if Einstein found your hand in his pocket?

Works

  • Edisto . Novel. 1984
    • Edisto . Translation of Harry Rowohlt. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1985
  • A Woman Named Drown . 1987
    • A woman named Drown . Translation of Harry Rowohlt. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1990
  • Typical . 1991
  • Edisto Revisited . 1996
    • Return to Edisto . Translation of Harry Rowohlt. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1997
  • Aliens of Affection . Stories. Newburyport: Open Road Media, 1998
    • Broken hearted junkyard . Stories. Translation of Harry Rowohlt. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2013
  • Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000
  • The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009)
    • Novel in questions . Translation of Harry Rowohlt. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2012.
  • You & Me . New York, NY: Ecco, 2012
  • Cries for Help, Various . New York, NY: Catapult, 2015

Web links

literature

  • Marcel work: Coming of Age in Faulkner's “The Reivers” and Padgett Powell's “Edisto” , in: Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Ed.): Faulkner, his contemporaries, and his posterity . Tübingen: Francke, 1993 ISBN 3-7720-2002-X , pp. 276-283

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zoe Hagen : Hello, ugly bird . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 4, 2014, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Powell, Padgett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Gainesville , Florida