John Lanchester

John Lanchester ( born February 25, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a British writer, who published in 1996 for his debut novel The Debt to Pleasure with numerous literary prizes including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book Award was awarded for the best debut novel. In Germany Lanchester succeeded in 2012, the breakthrough with the novel "capital", English "Capital", a book about life in the big city in the times of financial crisis.

Life

Lanchester grew up in the Far East and worked as an editor at the publishing house Penguin Books after completing his education in England, before he became a member of the editorial board of the London Review of Books. In addition, he was responsible for numerous newspapers and magazines as Granta and The New Yorker as well as working as a restaurant critic for The Observer, and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph.

Work

Published in 1996, Lanchester his highly acclaimed debut novel The Debt to Pleasure, an unorthodox and educated autobiography of eerie Gourmets " Tarquin Winot ". For this he received several literary prizes: the Whitbread Book Award for the best debut novel, the Hawthornden Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and the Julia Child Award. The book has been translated into twenty languages ​​into German by Melanie Walz.

His second book, the novel Mr Phillips ( 2000), is an inner monologue that tells the inner thoughts and fantasies of an unemployed fifty -year-old accountant.

The gambling in Hong Kong Fragrant Harbour novel (2002) was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Last published the autobiographical book Family Romance ( 2007), and in March 2013 " Why does everyone each owes something and no one ever pays back something " ', a representation of the financial crisis from 2007 ( English 2010: Whoops Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay! ').

Publications

• The desire and their price, original title The Debt to Pleasure, 1996, ISBN 3-552-04803-0.
• Mr. Phillips 6-7, original title Mr Phillips, 2002, ISBN 3-552-05185-6.
• Empire Hotel, Hong Kong, original title Fragrant Harbour, 2004, ISBN 3-552-05324-7.
• Capital ( in the German translation by Dorothee Merkel ), 5th edition, Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-93985-9, original title Capital, in 2012.
• " Why does everyone owes something to each and no one ever pays back a bit: The bizarre story of Finance ", original title "Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay ", 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94747-2.