George Saunders (1) (1958–)
Auteur de Lincoln in the Bardo
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent George Saunders, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
George Saunders is the author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia. (Publisher Provided) George Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas on December 2, 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering and a master's degree in creative writing from Syracuse University. He is a afficher plus professor at Syracuse University and a writer of short stories, essays, novellas, and children's books. He won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004 His books include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, In Persuasion Nation, and Tenth of December: Stories, which won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2014. His debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, received the Man Booker Prize in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de George Saunders
Pastoralia : Winky - Sea Oak - Firpo - Les petits malheurs du coiffeur - Les Chutes (2000) 2,366 exemplaires
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (2021) 1,244 exemplaires
Escape from Spiderhead {story} 9 exemplaires
Sea Oak 4 exemplaires
My Chivalric Fiasco 2 exemplaires
Commcomm 2 exemplaires
Jon 2 exemplaires
Mother's Day (story & writer-interview, New Yorker) 2 exemplaires
Adams 2 exemplaires
The Red Bow 2 exemplaires
Puppy [short story] 2 exemplaires
Winky (in Pastoralia) 2 exemplaires
Le cascate (in Pastoralia) 1 exemplaire
Le ragazze Semplica (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplaire
Il parrucchiere infelice (in Pastoralia) 1 exemplaire
La fine del firpo nel mondo 1 exemplaire
Love Letter 1 exemplaire
Al Roosten (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplaire
Esortazione (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplaire
Croci (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplaire
Giro d'onore (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplaire
93990 {short story} 1 exemplaire
Bohemians [short story] 1 exemplaire
Liner Notes 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1958-12-02
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Amarillo, Texas, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Amarillo, Texas, USA
Golden, Colorado, USA
Syracuse, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Rochester, New York, USA - Études
- Colorado School of Mines (B.S.|Geophysical Engineering)
Syracuse University (M.A.|Creative Writing) - Professions
- geophysical engineer
technical writer - Organisations
- Harvard Lampoon, Honorary Membership
- Prix et distinctions
- MacArthur Fellowship (2006)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)
Harvard Lampoon Good American Satirist Award (2002)
Lannen Foundation Fellowship (2002)
Syracuse University Fellow (1986-1988)
O. Henry Award, Third Prize (1999) (for "Sea Oak", The New Yorker, December 28, 1998 & January 4, 1999) (tout afficher 11)
O. Henry Award, Third Prize (1998) (for "Winky", The New Yorker, July 28, 1997)
O. Henry Award, Second Prize (1997) (for "The Falls", The New Yorker, January 22, 1996)
Syracuse University Graduate Teaching Award (2000)
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2009) - Courte biographie
- George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.
A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006 Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006 he won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".
His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 44
- Aussi par
- 53
- Membres
- 20,597
- Popularité
- #1,052
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 885
- ISBN
- 288
- Langues
- 20
- Favoris
- 91
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