Annie Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx [ pru ː ] ( born August 22, 1935 in Norwich, Connecticut ) is a Canadian- American writer and journalist.
Life
Proulx 's mother came from a long-established middle-class family in Connecticut, the father was French-Canadian. Thus Proulx, the U.S. and Canadian citizenship.
1969 Proulx made her exam (BA ) at the University of Vermont. She studied in Montreal, Canada, on and closed in 1973 with a Master of Arts (MA ) from. First, she began to write as a journalist and nonfiction author. Only later, with more than 50 years, she turned to fiction.
She lived more than 30 years in Vermont, was married three times, has three sons and a daughter. In her sixtieth year, she moved to Wyoming, where she sang to for her short story "Brokeback Mountain" (1997) was inspired. In 2003, she purchased there for forty acres of land with views of the North Platte River without electricity or telephone connection and built himself a house there. A few years ago she gave up her secluded residence and moved to Seattle, where she lives today. In support, she said that the daily errands in Wyoming require very long car rides that they no longer wished to take upon themselves in old age. In addition, the winter are very hard in the Midwest and required a good physical condition.
Works and their awards
Proulx published in 1988 in the United States a collection of short stories, Heart Songs and Other Stories (English heart songs).
Her first novel Postcards (Ger. " Postcards", 1992) brought her over the life of a farm family as the first woman to a coveted PEN / Faulkner Award.
The following, based in Newfoundland novel The Shipping News (Eng. " The Shipping News ", 1993) was a worldwide success. For him, the author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. The novel is about a widowed man who tries to make a fresh start in the isolation of a small Newfoundland coastal town. The novel was made into a film in Hollywood with the same title by director Lasse Hallström with prominent actors and ran successfully worldwide in the cinema theaters.
Further works by Proulx are the novel Accordion Crimes (Eng. " The green accordion ", 1996) and the novel That Old Ace in the Hole (Eng. " In the middle of America," 2002). In addition, three volumes were published with tales from Wyoming: Close Range (Eng. " Far out ", 1999 ), Bad Dirt ( German " Hinterland ", 2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is (Eng. "Here 's I've always liked ", 2008).
Close Range was awarded the Book Prize of The New Yorker magazine in 1999 and 2000 awarded the English-Speaking Union 's Ambassador Book Award and Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction.
2005 Ang Lee filmed Proulx 'short story Brokeback Mountain, which was first published on 13 October 1997 in an issue of the magazine The New Yorker. The story won the 1998 O. Henry Prize and the National Magazine Award. In 1997 the writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, the film producer had only about fifty pages long story for the big screen adapted. Proulx, published in 1999 a revised version in their anthology Close Range. The film by Ang Lee about the lifelong love between two cowboys who can live out their love only in sporadic fishing trips was in 2006 won four Golden Globes and three Oscars, including for best adapted screenplay. Proulx was both " The Shipping News " and in "Brokeback Mountain" itself screenwriter. 2014 saw the same opera with music by Charles Wuorinen at the Teatro Real in Madrid their first performance, the libretto is also by Annie Proulx.
In the fall of 2011, the German translation of her memoirs appeared a house in the wilderness.