Peter Cameron (writer)

Peter Cameron (born November 29, 1959 in Pompton Plains , New Jersey ) is an American author of novels and short stories .

Life

Cameron grew up in Pompton Plains , New Jersey , and London , United Kingdom . He studied at Hamilton College , New York State, and graduated in 1982 with a BA in English Literature. In 1983 he sold his first short story to The New Yorker magazine and published ten more stories there over the next few years. This led to the publication of his first book, a collection of stories, entitled One Way or Another in 1986 . In 1988 Cameron was hired to write a series novel for 7 Days magazine. This series, for which a chapter was written and published every week, became 1989 Leap Year , a novel about life and love in New York City in the 1980s. Since then, Cameron has continuously published novels and short stories that have been translated into numerous languages. Some of the works were also made into films. Cameron is also the editor of Shrinking Violet Press , a series of hand-crafted and Cameron-designed books of poetry or prose, limited to 10 copies each.

Works (selection)

• One Way or Another , HarperCollins Publishers 1986. ISBN 978-0-06-091421-9 / German translation So oder anders , Diogenes 1989, ISBN 978-3-257-01815-8
• Leap Year , Harper and Row 1989. ISBN 978-0-06-016252-8 / German translation leap year , Diogenes 1991, ISBN 978-3-257-01873-8
• The Weekend , Picador 1994. ISBN 978-0-312-42870-9 / German translation The weekend , construction publishing house 1995. ISBN 978-3-7466-1500-4
• Andorra , Fourth Estate London 1997. ISBN 978-1857026337 / German translation At that time is a distant country , Aufbau Verlag 2000. ISBN 978-3-351-02831-2
• The City of Your Final Destination , HarperCollins Publishers 2002. ISBN 978-1-85702-973-4 / German translation Die Stadt am Ende der Zeit , Aufbau Verlag 2004. ISBN 978-3-7466-1502-8
• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You , Picador 2007. ISBN 978-0-312-42816-7 / German translation You'll see what it's good for , Albrecht Knaus Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-8135-0308- 1
• Coral Glynn , Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-29901-9 / German translation The strange marriage of Coral Glynn , Albrecht Knaus Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-8135-0477-4
• What happens at night , Catapult 2020. ISBN 1948226960

Film adaptations

• The weekend , film, 1999, directed by Brian Skeet , with u. a. Gena Rowlands and Brooke Shields
• The City of Your Final Destination , film, 2009, directed by James Ivory , with u. a. Omar Metwally , Anthony Hopkins and Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You , film, 2011, directed by Roberto Faenza , with u. a. Toby Regbo , Marcia Gay Harden and Peter Gallagher

Web links

• Peter Cameron in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• http://www.peter-cameron.com/index.htm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.peter-cameron.com/bio.htm
2. ↑ http://www.shrinkingvioletpress.com/
3. ↑ http://www.peter-cameron.com/works.htm
4. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180301/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4
5. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896923/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_3
6. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703125/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2