Tim Parks

Tim Parks, 2018

Timothy Harold "Tim" Parks (born December 19, 1954 in Manchester , Great Britain ) is a British writer and translator who lives in Italy.

biography

He studied at Cambridge ( Bachelor of Arts , 1977) and Harvard ( Master of Arts , 1979). He has lived in Italy, near Verona , since 1981 , and has three children with his Italian wife, Rita Baldassarre. He is a lecturer at the Università IULM in Milan , where he teaches literary translation. Parks is considered to be an educated expert on European intellectual history.

Areas of work and books

His areas of work include novels and essays . He has translated works by Roberto Calasso , Italo Calvino , Fleur Jaeggy , Alberto Moravia , Antonio Tabucchi and Giuliana Tedeschi into English and by Samuel Beckett , James Joyce and Virginia Woolf into Italian. He wrote a new translation of the Il principe by Niccolò Machiavelli . His best known novels in Great Britain are Italian Conditions and Mimi's Legacy , which deal with life in Italy today. He also wrote the book A Season with Verona , in which he describes the games of the football club Hellas Verona in the 2000/2001 season and gives an insight into the lifestyle of the Italian Tifosi . Parks is a frequent contributor to essays for the New York Review of Books . He was nominated twice for the Booker Prize , in 1997 on the shortlist with Europe and in 2003 on the longlist with Judge Savage .

Awards

• 1986 Somerset Maugham Award

Works

Novels

• 1985: Tongues of Flame
  • Flammenzungen , German by Veronika Cordes, Schneekluth, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-7951-1123-4
• 1986: Loving Roger
  • To love Roger , German by Hans M. Herzog , Schneekluth, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7951-1070-X
• 1987: Home Thoughts
  • Julias Abschied , German from Veronika Cordes; Schneekluth, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-7951-1167-6
• 1989: Family Planning
  • Everyone loves Raymond , German by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann; Kunstmann, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-88897-177-2
• 1990: Cara Massimina
  • Italian conditions , German from Lutz-W. Wolff; Goldmann, Munich 1991. ISBN 3-442-41017-7
  • also as: Ambitious Mr. Duckworth , same translation; Kunstmann, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-88897-930-9
• 1992: Italian Neighbors
  • A house in Veneto , German by Katharina Foers and Gerlinde Schermer-Rauwolf; Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994. ISBN 3-426-60237-7
• 1992: Goodness
  • Gute Menschen , German by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann; Kunstmann, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-88897-163-2
• 1993: Shear
  • The expert , German by Günter Ohnemus ; Kunstmann, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-88897-096-2
• 1995: Mimi's Ghost
  • Mimi's legacy , German by Sabine Lohmann; Goldmann, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-442-42819-X
  • also as: Mr. Duckworth is persecuted , same translation; Kunstmann, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-88897-931-6
• 1997: Europe
  • Europe , German by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann; Kunstmann, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-88897-202-7
• 1999: Destiny
  • Fate , German by Ulrike Becker; Kunstmann, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-88897-257-4
• 2003: Judge Savage
  • Double life , German by Michael Schulte; Kunstmann, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-88897-323-6
• 2005: Rapids
  • White water , German by Ulrike Becker; Kunstmann, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-88897-382-1
• 2006: Cleaver
  • Silence , German by Ulrike Becker; Kunstmann, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-88897-443-4
• 2009: Dreams of Rivers and Seas
  • Dreams of rivers and seas , German by Ulrike Becker, Kunstmann Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-88897-579-0
• 2012: The Server (Paperback as: Sex is Forbidden)
  • Sex is forbidden ; German by Ulrike Becker; Kunstmann, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-88897-773-2
• 2013: Painting Death
  • Mr. Duckworth collects death , German from Ulrike Becker; Kunstmann, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-88897-932-3
• 2016: Thomas and Mary: a Love Story . London: Harvill Secker, 2016
  • Thomas & Mary ; German by Ulrike Becker; Kunstmann, Munich 2017. ISBN 978-3-95614-164-5
• 2017: In Extremis . London: Harvill Secker, 2017

Non-fiction

• 1996: An Italian Education
  • My life in the Veneto , German by Bernhard Jendricke, Gerlinde Schermer-Rauwolf and Thomas Wollermann; Droemer Knaur; Munich 1997. ISBN 3-426-60503-1
• 1997: Translating Style: English Modernists and their Italian translations
• 1998: Adultery and other Diversions
  • Adultery and other diversions , in German by Ulrike Becker, Ruth Keen and Claus Varrelmann; Kunstmann, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-88897-214-0
• 2001: Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
• 2001: A Season with Verona
  • A season with Verona , German by Andreas Jäger; Goldmann, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-442-45374-7
• 2005: Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
  • The Medici Money , German by Susanne Höbel; Kunstmann, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-442-15526-2
• 2010: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing
  • The art of sitting still: A skeptic in search of health and healing , by Ulrike Becker; Kunstmann, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-88897-680-3 .
• 2013: Italian Ways: On and off the Rails from Milano to Palermo .
  • Italy to the fullest , Kunstmann Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-88897-971-2 .
• Where I'm reading from
  • What we talk about when we talk about books . Translation Ulrike Becker; Ruth Keen. Munich: Antje Kunstmann Verlag, 2016

Audio books

• 2001: Schicksal , Kunstmann München, ISBN 3-88897-287-6 , abridged, 2 CDs read by Hanns Zischler , min. 268 min.
• 2007: Stille , Kunstmann München, ISBN 978-3-88897-476-2 , abbreviated, 5 CDs, read by Axel Milberg , 389 min.

Movie

• Silence , based on the novel. Directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger . ARD, 2013

literature

• 2003: Gillian Fenwick: Understanding Tim Parks . University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, ISBN 1-57003-456-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Tim Parks in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Tim Parks in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Tim Parks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (English)

Individual references, comments

1. ^ Contemporary Authors , Gale, 2009.
2. ^ Contemporary Novelists , 7th ed. St. James Press, 2001.
3. ^ Mathias Greffrath: The wandering pain . In: Die Zeit , January 20, 2011.
4. ^ Tim Parks - The New York Review of Books
5. ↑ Through the purgatory of the ticket machines ; in FAZ of November 19, 2014, p. 10.