Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner (born 1968 in Eugene, Oregon ) is an American writer.
Life
Rachel Kushner's parents were from New York and moved around in the trailer with her and then moved to San Francisco in 1979 , where she grew up. When she was eighteen she went to Florence as an exchange student . She did a quick degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley , wasted time, was part of a motorcycle gang, and rode a 500 Moto Guzzi . In 2001, she received an MFA in literature and creative writing from Columbia University . She worked in New York City as an editor for the literary magazine Grand Street and wrote for the magazine Bomb . Since then she has been the editor of Soft Targets magazine .
Her stories and essays appear in New Yorker , Harper’s , New York Times and Paris Review . Her first two novels Telex from Cuba (2008) and The Flamethrowers (2013) were each nominated for a National Book Award . In 2013 she received a Guggenheim scholarship . With her novel The Mars Room , Kushner was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018 , and the French translation of the novel ( Le Mars Club ) was awarded the Prix Médicis étranger in 2018 .
Kushner lives in Los Angeles , her husband works at the Art Center College of Design , they have a son.
Works
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Telex from Cuba . New York: Scribner, 2008.
- Telex from Cuba . Translated from the English by Bettina Abarbanell . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-03446-7 .
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The Flamethrowers . New York: Scribner, 2013
- Flamethrower: Roman . Translated from the English by Bettina Abarbanell. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2015
- The Strange Case of Rachel K . Three stories. New Directions, 2015
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The Mars Room. Scribner, 2018.
- I am a destiny . Translated from the English by Bettina Abarbanell. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-03580-8 .
literature
- Rachel Kushner: Pictures in the head, pictures on paper , translation by Jörg Häntzschel, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 9, 2015, p. 24
Web links
- Literature by and about Rachel Kushner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Rachel Kushner in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Rachel Kushner at perlentaucher.de
- Rachel Kushner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rachel Kushner , website
- Rachel Kushner , at Rowohlt
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans-Peter Kunisch : Burned days . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 4, 2015, p. 19
- ↑ Rachel Kushner: The Strange Case of Rachel K , in: BOMB, Summer 2006
- ↑ A good novel must disappoint expectations , Interview, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 21, 2015, p. 20
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kushner, Rachel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Eugene (Oregon) |