Phil Klay
Phil Klay (born 1983 in White Plains, NY ) is an American writer and former soldier in the US Marine Corps . His story collection Redeployment received praise from the American press, was translated into ten languages, was on the New York Times bestseller list and received the National Book Award 2014 in the fiction category and the WY Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction 2015.
Life
Phil Klay studied creative writing and history at Dartmouth College . From 2005 to 2009 he served in the US Marine Corps and from January 2007 to February 2008 he served abroad as a public affairs officer in the Iraqi province of Al-Anbar.
After his military service, he enrolled for a Master of Fine Arts degree at Hunter College in New York and attended the Veterans Writing Workshop at New York University . In 2011 he finished his studies. His short story “ Redeployment ” was published in the same year in the literary magazine Granta as the lead in the 9/11 issue of Ten Years Later . His literary debut, a collection of short stories about experiences in the Iraq war , was published under the same name in spring 2014 .
Phil Klay has published articles in journals and magazines, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal .
Klay lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Jessica Alvarez .
reception
Some reviewers see Klay as an outstanding new voice in American literature. Because of its complexity and literary quality, We Shot Dogs is a timeless classic. Klay has been compared to authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Tim O'Brien, and Erich Maria Remarque.
Publications
- Short stories
- We shot dogs too . German by Hannes Meyer, Suhrkamp Verlag ( Suhrkamp Nova ), Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-46543-1 (Original title: Redeployment . Penguin Books, New York 2014)
- "Redeployment". In: Granta. No. 116. August 18, 2011. (Republished in the Matt Gallagher Collection, Roy Scranton (Eds.): Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. Da Capo Press, Boston, 2013)
- Articles in journals and magazines
- Treat Veterans With Respect, Not Pity. In: The Wall Street Journal. May 23, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
- After War, a Failure of the Imagination. In: The New York Times. February 8, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
- Tour guide. In: Granta No. 124. August 15, 2013, accessed September 1, 2014 .
- The 'Soldier' with the Bazooka: World War II, Iraq, and a Story of the Good War. In: The Daily Beast. July 5, 2013, accessed September 1, 2014 .
- A War, Before and After, Part 4. In: The New York Times Opinionator. March 19, 2013, accessed September 1, 2014 .
- How We Mourned, Why We Fought: A Marine remembers his comrades' sacrifice, country's growing pains. In: New York Daily News. September 11, 2011, accessed September 1, 2014 .
- Death and Memory. In: The New York Times Opinionator. October 28, 2010, accessed September 1, 2014 .
Web links
- Entry in the DNB
- Website (English)
- Initerview with Phil Klay in: The Short Form, Internet magazine
- Dexter Filkins: The Long Road Home. In: The New York Times. March 6, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
- Kate Kellaway: Phil Klay: 'I had a desire to serve my country and I'm a physical guy'. In: The Ovserver. March 16, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Phil Klay: I had a desire to serve my country. In: The Observer. March 16, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014.
- ^ Jeff Turrentine: Book World: In Phil Klay's 'Redeployment', engrossing short stories about the Iraq war. In: The Washington Post. March 6, 2014, accessed July 30, 2014.
- ↑ We are waging war in Iraq because we are waging war in Iraq in FAZ of November 29, 2013, page L2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klay, Phil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | White Plains, NY |