Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner (2015)

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

  • Telex from Cuba . New York: Scribner, 2008.
  • 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
  • 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

Commons : Rachel Kushner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans-Peter Kunisch : Burned days . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 4, 2015, p. 19
  2. ↑ Rachel Kushner: The Strange Case of Rachel K , in: BOMB, Summer 2006
  3. ↑ A good novel must disappoint expectations , Interview, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 21, 2015, p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Kushner, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Eugene (Oregon)