Jonathan Franzen
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Over de Auteur
Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981, and went on to study at the Freie University in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. He worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences toon meer after graduation. His works include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002), and The Discomfort Zone (2006). The Corrections (2001) won a National Book Award and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Freedom (2010) is an Oprah Book Club selection. He also won a Whiting Writers' Award in 1988 and the American Academy's Berlin Prize in 2000. He is also a frequent contributor to Harper's and The New Yorker. In 2015 his title Purity made The New Yort Times and New Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Jonathan Franzen
Selected Essays from: How to be Alone 10 exemplaren
The Republic of Bad Taste 3 exemplaren
How He Came to Be Somewhere 2 exemplaren
encruzilhadas Ed. 2023 1 exemplaar
Emptying The Skies 1 exemplaar
Why Birds Matter 1 exemplaar
Birders: The Central Park Effect 1 exemplaar
2006 1 exemplaar
The Failure. Stories from The Corrections: Das Hörbuch zum Sprachen lernen mit ausgewählten Kurzgeschichten.… (2005) 1 exemplaar
Ambition (in McSweeney's 37 - EGGERS) 1 exemplaar
Sample of Freedom 1 exemplaar
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Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas (2019) — Voorwoord — 22 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Officiële naam
- Franzen, Jonathan Earl
- Geboortedatum
- 1959-08-17
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Amerikaans
- Geboorteplaats
- Western Springs, Illinois, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Boulder Creek, California, USA - Opleiding
- Wayne State University (1979)
Swarthmore College (BA | 1981 | German)
Freie Universität Berlin (1981) - Beroepen
- writer
novelist
essayist - Relaties
- Wallace, David Foster (friend)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Whiting Writers' Award (1988)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
Fulbright Scholarship (1981)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012)
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2012)
Akademie der Kunste (2010) - Korte biografie
- 1959 in Western Springs / Illinois geboren, wuchs in einer Vorstadt von St. Louis auf. 1988 veröffentlichte er den Roman "The Twenty-Seventh City", 1992 "Strong Motion". Für seinen dritten Roman und sensationellen Erfolg "The Corrections" erhielt er 2001 den National Book Award verliehen. Schon vorher hat ihn die Zeitschrift The New Yorker unter die "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century" gerechnet. Jonathan Franzen lebt in New York.
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Discussies
Jonathan Franzen's latest, PURITY--will you read it and is he really "America's best novelist"? in Literary Snobs (september 2015)
June 2013: The Twenty-Seventh City in Missouri Readers (juli 2013)
1001 April Group Read: [The Corrections] in 1001 Books to read before you die (mei 2012)
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