Peter S. Beagle

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Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939 in Manhattan , New York ) is an American writer of fantasy books. Beagle has also written scripts and has performed as a singer-songwriter and chansonnier .

Life

Beagle is the son of Simon Beagle (1902–1985) and Rebecca Beagle, née Soyer (1904–2006). He grew up in the Bronx , read eagerly, and made an early decision to become a writer. His parents, both teachers, encouraged him, especially since his maternal grandfather was the Jewish scholar and writer Abraham Soyer (1867–1940). The artist Raphael Soyer is his uncle. He attended the Bronx High School of Science , where he made numerous contributions to the school's literary magazine. In 1955, his senior year of high school, he took one of his poems in a writing competition of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and won a scholarship with which he studied at the University of Pittsburgh for the next four years .

In his sophomore year in Pittsburgh, he won a short story writing competition for youth magazine Seveenteen , soon found an agent, published a first short story ( Telephone Call , 1957), and wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place , which appeared in 1960.

After graduating, he went overseas for a year. After his return he had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University in California for two years through the mediation of his agent , where he met his future wife Enid. He then stayed on the east coast for a while, but then decided to return to California. He covered the distance on a scooter, which then became the basis of his autobiographical travelogue I See By My Outfit (1965). When he arrived, he married and from then on lived as a freelance writer with Enid and their three children.

In 1968 the last unicorn was published , a fantasy novel that is still his best-known book today. It tells how the last unicorn goes on a journey to find the unicorns that have disappeared from the world, finally finds them, transformed into the human woman Lady Amalthea, and can free them from the captivity of King Haggard and his red bull, whereby the magician Schmendrick and the robber captain's wife Molly Groo help her. The novel received good reviews, was a huge success and is now a classic of the high fantasy genre. In 1982 an animated film was released . Beagle wrote the script himself, the animation was done by the Japanese studio Topcraft , from which Studio Ghibli later emerged, the soundtrack of Jimmy Webb was recorded by the band America and the London Symphony Orchestra and was also a success as an album .

In the 1970s he worked increasingly as a screenwriter. Among other things, he wrote the script for the less successful cartoon version of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi (1978) and a script for an episode of Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century . In 1980 his marriage ended in divorce and he moved north to Seattle for a few years .

In addition to his work as a writer and screenwriter, Beagle has repeatedly performed as a folk singer with English, Yiddish, French and German songs and has also released a live album. Beagle lives in Davis , California with his second wife, writer and artist Padma Hejmadi .

Awards

  • 1987: Mythopoeic Award in the Fantasy category for The Folk of the Air (Das Volk der Lüfte)
  • 1994: Locus Award in the Best Fantasy Novel category for The Innkeeper's Song (three ladies came in the evening glow )
  • 2000: Mythopoeic Award in the adult literature category for Tamsin (The Magic House)
  • 2003: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in the translated narrative or collection category for The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances (Le Rhinoceros qui citait Nietzsche)
  • 2006: Hugo Award in the category Best story for Two Hearts (Two Hearts)
  • 2006: Nebula Award in the category Best story for Two Hearts (Two Hearts)
  • 2007: WSFA Small Press Award for El Regalo (in: The Line Between )
  • 2010: Locus Award in the Best Narration category for By Moonlight
  • 2011: World Fantasy Award in the Lifetime Achievement category
  • 2018: World Fantasy Award in the Best Anthology category for The New Voices of Fantasy (together with Jacob Weisman )
  • 2018: Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Works

  • A Fine and Private Place . 1960 (fantasy).
    • German: Hey! Rebeck !. Translated by Hans Georg Lenzen. Rauch, Düsseldorf 1962.
  • I see by my outfit. 1965 (biographical travel experiences, on the scooter from the east to the west coast of the USA).
  • The Last Unicorn . 1968 (fantasy).
  • The California Feeling: A Personal View. (biographical impressions).
  • Lila, the werewolf . 1974 (fantasy).
    • German: The werewolf. Translated by Lore Straßl. Terra Fantasy No. 69. Pabel, Rastatt 1980.
  • American Denim: A New Folk Art. 1975 (non-fiction book on denim clothing).
  • The Lady and Her Tiger. 1976 (non-fiction book, together with Pat Derby).
  • The Folk of the Air . 1977 (fantasy).
    • German: The people of the air. Translated by Dirk van Gunsteren. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-95528-3 .
  • Come on, lady death. 1977 (fantasy, horror).
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights. 1982 (art criticism on Hieronymus Bosch ).
  • The Innkeeper's Song 1993 (Fantasy).
    • German: Three ladies came in the sunset. Translated by Hans J. Schütz. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-93273-9 .
  • In the Presence of the Elephants. 1995 (non-fiction, together with Pat Derby).
  • The Unicorn Sonata . 1996 (fantasy).
    • English: The Sonata of the Unicorn. Translated by Jörn Ingwersen. Diana, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-8284-0001-9 .
  • Giant bones . 1997 (also under the title The Magician of Karakosk and Other Stories ; six fantasy stories from the world of The Innkeeper's Song ).
    • English: The Magician of Karakosk. Translated by Hans J. Schütz. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-93426-X .
  • The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances . 1997 (stories and essays).
    • German: The Indian rhinoceros. Translated by Hans J. Schütz and Karin Polz. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-87518-2 .
  • Tamsin . 1999 (fantasy).
    • German: The magic house. Translated by Andreas Brandhorst. Piper, Zurich and Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-26536-7 .
  • A dance for Emilia. 2000 (fantasy).
  • Two hearts. 2006 (sequel to The Last Unicorn )
  • The line between. 2006 (short stories).
  • Your Friendly Neighborhood Magician: Songs and Early Poems. 2006 (collection of songs and poems; limited edition).
  • The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version. 2007 (original version).
  • with Lisa Snellings-Clark: Strange Roads 2008 (three stories).
  • We Never Talk About My Brother. 2009 (short story collection).
  • Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle. 2010 (edited by Jonathan Strahan).
  • Return: An Innkeeper's World Story 2010 ( short story).
  • Sleight of hand. 2011 (short story collection).
  • The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings. 2012 (short stories and essays).
  • Summer long. 2016 (novel).
  • In Calabria. 2017 (novel).
  • The Overneath. 2017 (short stories).

as editor:

  • with Janet Berliner: Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn. 1995 (anthology; two-volume paperback edition 1998/1999).
  • The Secret History of Fantasy. 2010 (anthology).
  • with Joe R. Lansdale: The Urban Fantasy Anthology. 2011 (anthology).
  • with Jacob Weisman: The New Voices of Fantasy. 2017 (anthology).

Beagle adapted his short story Come, Lady Death as the libretto for the opera The Midnight Angel (1993) by David Carlson .

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter S. Beagle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographies of Rebecca “Rebbie” Soyer Beagle
  2. ↑ Short biography Abraham Soyer (English)
  3. ↑ David Stevens: Beyond Horatio's Philosophy: The Fantasy of Peter S. Beagle . Borgo Press, Rockville 2012, chap. 1  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / reader.paperc.com  
  4. ↑ Season 3, Episode No. 71: Ambassador Sarek (1990).
personal data
SURNAME Beagle, Peter S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beagle, Peter Soyer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York City , USA