Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk (born February 8, 1967 in Saskatoon , Canada ) is an English writer .

life and work

Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967, the second of four children, but spent most of her childhood in Los Angeles . When she was nine, she moved to the UK with her family . There she studied English at New College of Oxford University . She later worked for a literary agency in London and toured Spain and Central America. Cusk is married to the artist Siemon Scamell-Katz. She lives in Brighton with her two daughters.

Cusk has written eight novels and three non-fiction books and has received numerous awards for them. She is one of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists. In 1993 her first novel, Saving Agnes , was published, for which she received the Whitbread First Novel Award . In 2001 she processed her experiences as a mother in the non-fiction book A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother . It was often referred to in the English press as "uncompromising", tough or brutally honest.

Her novel Outline (2014), which was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in Germany in March 2016 , was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction . Outline is a novel about love, loss, memory and the basic urge to tell stories to others and to yourself. The New York Times wrote of Cusk: "A first-rate writer with biting intelligence and uncompromisingly precise powers of observation."

Afterwards appeared in Germany in 2020 . About marriage and separation . In her autobiographical essay she analyzes the collateral damage of family coexistence, the myths of motherhood and a woman healed from adolescent illusions who has been cast out of her previous life and love.

Works

Novels

Saving Agnes (1993)
The Temporary (1995)
The Country Life (1997)
- In the country . Translation Margarete Längfeld. Malik, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-89029114-7 .
The Lucky Ones (2003)
In the Fold (2005)
Arlington Park (2006)
- Arlington Park . Translation by Sabine Hedinger . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-498-00931-1 .
The Bradshaw Variations (2009)
- The Bradshaw Variations . Translation by Sabine Hedinger. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-00934-2 .
Outline (2014)
- Outline: novel . Translation Eva Bonné . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42528-2 .
Transit . London: Jonathan Cape, 2016
- In transit: novel . Translation Eva Bonné. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42591-6 .
Kudos . London: Faber, 2018
- Kudos . Translation Eva Bonné. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42807-8 .

Non-fiction

A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001)
- German edition: About becoming a mother . Translation Eva Bonné. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42889-4 .
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009)
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012)
- German edition: After that. About marriage and separation . Translation Eva Bonné. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42914-3 .
Coventry (2019)