George Saunders (1) (1958–)
Autor/a de Lincoln in the Bardo
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Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Obres de George Saunders
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (2021) 1,112 exemplars
Escape from Spiderhead {story} 9 exemplars
Sea Oak 4 exemplars
My Chivalric Fiasco 2 exemplars
Commcomm 2 exemplars
Jon 2 exemplars
Adams 2 exemplars
The Red Bow 2 exemplars
Puppy [short story] 2 exemplars
Winky (in Pastoralia) 2 exemplars
Le cascate (in Pastoralia) 1 exemplars
Le ragazze Semplica (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplars
Il parrucchiere infelice (in Pastoralia) 1 exemplars
La fine del firpo nel mondo 1 exemplars
Love Letter 1 exemplars
Al Roosten (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplars
Esortazione (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplars
Croci (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplars
Giro d'onore (in Dieci dicembre) 1 exemplars
93990 {short story} 1 exemplars
Bohemians [short story] 1 exemplars
Liner Notes 1 exemplars
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Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel… (2005) — Col·laborador — 647 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Col·laborador — 277 exemplars
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Col·laborador — 261 exemplars
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Col·laborador — 238 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Col·laborador — 234 exemplars
Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (2008) — Col·laborador — 166 exemplars
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Col·laborador — 166 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 33 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The San Francisco Panorama (2009) — Col·laborador — 137 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 129 exemplars
The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood… (2007) — Col·laborador — 87 exemplars
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Col·laborador — 66 exemplars
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1958-12-02
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Amarillo, Texas, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Amarillo, Texas, USA
Golden, Colorado, USA
Syracuse, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Rochester, New York, USA - Educació
- Colorado School of Mines (B.S.|Geophysical Engineering)
Syracuse University (M.A.|Creative Writing) - Professions
- geophysical engineer
technical writer - Organitzacions
- Harvard Lampoon, Honorary Membership
- Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 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) - Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Converses
Happy sea creatures cling to fence singing at goats a Name that Book (setembre 2014)
Ressenyes
Complicat de ressenyar... El millor per a mi és el pròleg. Valoro la construcció de distopies però a estones se m'ha fet feixuc de llegir.
Llistes
2000s decade (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Ghosts (1)
Read This Next (1)
2021 (1)
Review 4 (1)
First Novels (1)
to get (1)
Reiny (1)
100 New Classics (1)
Five star books (1)
Booker Prize (1)
Best Dystopias (1)
To Read (2)
Phoebe Bridgers (2)
Backlisted (1)
Dead narrators (1)
Reading 2022 (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 44
- També de
- 53
- Membres
- 19,759
- Popularitat
- #1,097
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 836
- ISBN
- 281
- Llengües
- 19
- Preferit
- 91
- Pedres de toc
- 547
A partir d’aquest fet històric, George Saunders basteix una història inoblidable sobre l’amor i la pèrdua que s’endinsa en un regne sobrenatural alhora hilarant i terrorífic. I és en aquest bardo —l’estat de transició entre la mort i la reencarnació segons la tradició tibetana— que Willie Lincoln, envoltat de fantasmes que es mofen i es planyen de la vida que han deixat enrere, haurà de lliurar una monumental batalla sorgida del fons de la seva pròpia ànima.… (més)