Don DeLillo
Auteur van Witte ruis
Over de Auteur
Don DeLillo was born in the Bronx, New York on November 20, 1936. He received a bachelor's degree in communication arts from Fordham University in 1958. After graduation, he was a copywriter for an advertising company and wrote short stories on the side. His first story, The River Jordan, was toon meer published two years later in Epoch, the literary magazine of Cornell University. His first novel, Americana, was published in 1971. His other works include Ratner's Star, The Names, Libra, Underworld, The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and The Angel Esmeralda, a collection of short stories. He won several awards including the National Book Award for fiction in 1985 for White Noise, the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992 for Mao II, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and the inaugural Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Don DeLillo
Amazons: An intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League (1980) 72 exemplaren
Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s (LOA #363): The Names / White Noise / Libra (Library of America, 365) (2022) 61 exemplaren
Submón [1 : Pròleg. Parts 1-3] 2 exemplaren
Midnight in Dostoevsky 2 exemplaren
Linha Final 2 exemplaren
איש נופל 1 exemplaar
Human Moments in World War III {short story} 1 exemplaar
Baader-Meinhof 1 exemplaar
Don't Leave the Century Without It 1 exemplaar
"Woman in the distance" [press clipping] 1 exemplaar
The Itch 1 exemplaar
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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Medewerker — 248 exemplaren
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Medewerker — 132 exemplaren
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Medewerker — 62 exemplaren
Hebbes 2: 15 smaakmakers voor het voorjaar — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Delillo, Don
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Birdwell, Cleo
- Geboortedatum
- 1936-11-20
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Fordham University (BA|1958)
- Beroepen
- novelist
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Jerusalem Prize (1999)
Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award (1995)
Irish Times International Fiction prize (1989)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1984)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1979)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007) (toon alle 9)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2013)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1989)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2012)
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Group Read, March 2018: Underworld in 1001 Books to read before you die (maart 2018)
White Noise by Don DeLillo, (Bowie's Top 100 for June) in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (juni 2016)
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Wat volgt, is een meanderende, caleidoscopische roman waarin zowel de baseball-wedstrijd als de Koude Oorlog de verbindende thema’s zijn: het is zo gezocht, zo artificieel, dat het lijkt alsof DeLillo zegt: “Kijk eens wat ik allemaal kan te voorschijn toveren, hoe ingenieus ik de dingen kan maken…” en daarbij vergeet dat het ook nog ergens over mag gaan.
Neen, dit boek is echt niet aan mij besteed.… (meer)