Richard Russo

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Richard Russo (2008)

Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949 in Johnstown , New York ) is an American writer .

Life

Richard Russo grew up in Gloversville in upstate New York. He began studying archeology at the University of Arizona , then switched to literary studies and graduated with a doctorate in philosophy and a master's degree in creative writing . He then taught at various American universities : at Penn State University in Altoona , Pennsylvania , at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven , at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and at Colby College in Waterville ( Maine ). He has been working as a freelance writer since his novel Nobody’s Fool was successfully screened . In 1999 he settled in the coastal town of Camden, Maine with his wife, a real estate agent, and two daughters .

In his realistically narrated works, Russo describes mainly crisis-ridden small towns in the American East; He is a master of humorous portraits of weird people who are not lucky in life. In 2002 he received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Empire Falls" . Three years later, the television movie Empire Falls was released, for which Russo wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for an Emmy in 2005.

Works

  • Street of fools. ( Nobody's Fool ) Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-404-13649-7 . (Revised new edition, for the first time in an unabridged translation under the name Ein Grundzufriedener Mann. DUMONT Buchverlag 2017, ISBN 3-832-16405-7 )
  • The son of a thief. ( The Risk Pool ) Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1996, ISBN 3-404-13784-1 . (New edition under the name Im Schatten des Vaters. Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-43185-5 )
  • This old longing. ( That Old Cape Magic ) translated by Dirk van Gunsteren ; Dumont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9539-7 .
  • Those goddamn dreams. ( Empire Falls ) translated by Monika Köpfer. Dumont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9824-4 .
  • A man of action. ( Everybody's Fool ) translated by Monika Köpfer. Dumont, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9842-8 .
  • Always the same ways. Stories ( Trajectory ) translated by Monika Köpfer. Dumont, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-8321-8996-9 .
  • Beyond expectations. ( Chances Are ... ) translated by Monika Köpfer. Dumont, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-8321-8115-4 .
  • Sh * tshow. ( Sh * tshow ) translated by Monika Köpfer. Dumont, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-8321-8144-4 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Rainer Moritz: Vom Kummer einer flawless student , review on Deutschlandfunk Kultur from July 30, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Russo, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Johnstown (New York)