Daniel Woodrell

Daniel Woodrell (born March 4, 1953 in Springfield , Missouri ) is an American writer of cross-genre crime novels . With his style he founded the country noir crime thriller.

Life

Daniel Woodrell grew up in the West Plains in the Ozarks , a rural highland region that stretches from southern Missouri to Arkansas . He left high school when he was 17 and started his job with the Marines . Just 18 months later, he was released for a drug offense. Woodrell lasted six months in a job and described himself as a freelancer .

Some time after his interlude with the Marines, he studied at the University of Kansas and graduated with a BA . Woodrell then attended the Iowa Writers School at the University of Iowa and earned his Masters of Fine Arts . During this time he wrote his first novel Under the Bright Lights (Eng. Cajun Blues) .

Daniel Woodrell lives with his wife, writer Katie Estill, in his hometown of West Plains, Missouri.

Works

Woodrell's novels are critically acclaimed, but are often less economically successful.

“Daniel Woodrell reports from a hell called the Ozarks in southern Missouri. There Gibt's abundant forests, hills, a few filthy rich exploiters, corrupt cops, debile Hillybillys and lots of white trash -Clans, mutually, the marijuana abjagen -Ernten and shoot away the skull. 'The Ozarks are the perfect B-side of a big city juggernaut,' writes the crime writer. With enough cash you can buy your way out of everything - even an arrest warrant - without any problems, because mammon rules in the Ozarks too. Between the impenetrable forests are mansions, dilapidated farms, and small towns full of slums , with sheds covering the area like pockmarks, and heaps of children hatching the rest of the world ... Woodrell writes like a bastard son of Raymond Chandler and Erskine Caldwell . In his dialogues, pictures or comparisons, the influence of Chandler becomes clear, but without Woodrell becoming an epigone : 'I looked at him and thought that it is probably true that ancient people can suddenly look like children again, as if in a car Odometer changes and starts again from zero. Only that it is now a rickety vehicle. '”(Martin Compart in“ Poet des White Trash ”)

Rene Shade series

• 1986 Under the Bright Lights
  • Cajun Blues, German by Christine Strüh and Adelheid Zöfel; Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-07882-9 .
• 1988 Muscle for the Wing
  • Zoff für die Bosse, German by Christine Strüh and Adelheid Zöfel; Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08105-6 .
• 1992 The Ones You Do
  • John X., German by Kim Schwaner; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22648-0 .

Individual works

• 1987 Woe to Live On
  • Damned to Life by Kim Schwaner; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-22336-8 .
  • New translation: Damned to Life, German by Peter Torberg ; Liebeskind, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-95438-094-7 .
• 1996 Give Us a Kiss
  • Endless fabric, German by Jochen Schwarzer; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-498-07338-9 .
• 1998 Tomato Red
  • Tomato Red, German by Volker Oldenburg; Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-22660-X .
  • New translation: Tomato red, German by Peter Torberg; Liebeskind, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95438-060-2 .
• 2001 The Death of Sweet Mister
  • The death of Sweet Mister, German by Peter Torberg; Liebeskind, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-935890-95-3 .
• 2006 Winter's Bone
  • Winters bones, German by Peter Torberg; Liebeskind, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-935890-76-2 .
• 2013 The Maid's Version
  • In Alma's eyes, German by Peter Torberg; Liebeskind, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-95438-021-3 .

Collections

• 2011 The Bayou Trilogy (includes: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, The Ones You Do)
  • In the South - The Bayou Trilogy; same translations as the individual editions; with a foreword by Frank Göhre ; Heyne Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-453-43670-1 .
• 2011 The Outlaw Album (short stories)

Awards

• 1999: PEN West Award for Tomato Red
• 2000: Harry Award for the film Ride with the Devil
• 2008: Prix ​​Mystère de la critique in the International category for Un hiver de glace (German: Winters Bones )
• 2012: Crime of the year 2011 (5th place) in the KrimiZEIT best list for Winter's bones

Movies

• 1999 Ride With the Devil based on the novel Woe to Live On (Eng. Who rides with the devil ) . Directed by Ang Lee . Written by: Daniel Woodrell and James Schamus .
• 2010 Winter's Bone (dt. Winters Bone) . Directed by Debra Granik . Script: Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini.
• 2017 Tomato Red . Screenplay and Director: Juanita Wilson

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Woodrell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Daniel Woodrell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Daniel Woodrell on krimi-couch.de
• Biographical Martin Compart Daniel Woodrell on mordlust.de (accessed on 26 March 2012)
• Interview in The Oxford American ( Memento of July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by Matt Baker on June 10, 2011 (English, archive version accessed on October 22, 2018)
• Interview in the LIT Reactor by Keith Rawson, October 5, 2011 (accessed March 26, 2012)

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ via Martin Compart
2. ↑ cf. Biographical information about Daniel Woodrell ( memento June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by Martin Compart
3. ↑ Winters bones in book and film on kriminalakte.de
4. ↑ cf. Info from the Hachette Book Group ( Memento from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed on March 26, 2012)
5. ↑ cf. IMDb
6. ↑ Official page for the film ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed March 26, 2012) 
7. ^ The pictures of the noises by Lars-Olav Beier in Der Spiegel , issue 13/2011.