Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle, Gebunden

PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 'A writer who is rounding into mastery . . . [Whitehead] has made himself one of the finest novelists in America' The Wall Street Journal 'Whitehead is a superb storyteller' Telegraph 'One of only a handful of writers who is so brilliant you just want to feed him stories. He has a distinctive voice, at once cynical and compassionate, and his wry observations cut to the quick' Sunday Times 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'One of the greatest American writers alive' Time '[Whitehead's] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world' The New Yorker

Biografie

Colson Whitehead, geboren 1969 in New York, studierte an der Harvard University und arbeitete für die Zeitschriften Vibe, Spin und New York Newsday sowie als Fernsehkritiker für "The Village Voice". Er wurde für seinen Roman The Underground Railroad 2016 mit dem National Book Award und 2017 mit dem Pulitzer Prize for Fiction sowie der Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction und dem Arthur C. Clarke Award ausgezeichnet; 2020 erhielt er für The Nickel Boys den Pulitzer Prize for Fiction erneut, was vor ihm in der mehr als 100-jährigen Geschichte des Preises erst bei drei Schriftstellern der Fall gewesen war.