Russell Banks

Russel Banks (2011)

Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton , Massachusetts ) is an American writer . He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1996) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (since 1998).

Works

His first collection of short stories Searching for Survivors and his first novel Family Life were published in 1975. Since then, another four collections of short stories and nine novels have appeared. The two novels Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter were made into films.

A frequent topic at Russell Banks is political and historical facts.

Banks' strong characters stand out, e. B. the overpowering father figure in Cloudsplitter or the Chappie from Rule of the Bone , based on Mark Twain 's Huckleberry Finn .

Short story collections

• Searching for Survivors. 1975.
• The New World. 1978.
• Trailer park. 1981.
• Success Stories. 1986.
• The Angel on the Roof. 2000.
• A permanent member of the family. Clerkenwell Press, 2013.

Novels

• Family life. 1975.
• Hamilton Stark. 1978.
• The Book of Jamaica. 1980.
• The Relation of My Imprisonment. 1983.
• Continental drift. 1985 - Ger. Countercurrent.
• Affliction. 1989 - Ger. The hunted.
• The Sweet Hereafter. 1991 - Ger. The sweet afterlife.
• Rule of the Bone. 1995 - Ger. Gangsta bone.
• Cloud splitter. 1998 - Ger. John Brown, my father.
• The darling. 2004 - Ger. The white shadow.
• Lost Memory of Skin. 2011.
  • German by Barbara Christ : Outlawed . Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-122-3 .

Non-fictional works

• Invisible Strangers. 1998.

Film adaptations

• 1997 - The Hunted
• 1997 - The sweet afterlife

Web links

Commons : Russell Banks  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Russell Banks in the catalog of the German National Library
• Valentin Locoge: Interview with Russell Banks (English, 2005)
• Russell Banks , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2005