Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers ( born March 12, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist, screenwriter and editor of several literary magazines.

Life

Eggers was born in Boston, the son of the lawyer John K. Eggers and teacher Heidi McSweeney Eggers. During his childhood, the family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, where Eggers grew up. After graduating from Lake Forest High School, where Vince Vaughn was his classmate, he studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He founded the magazine Might and McSweeney's, and a publishing house of the same name. In 2000 he published his most famous work, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ( Eng.: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ), which was nominated for a best-seller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2002 his novel You Shall Know Our Velocity appeared (English: You will not (yet) realize how quickly we are) and the short story collection How We Are Hungry in 2004 ( Eng.: How hungry we are yet ).

Together with Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, he is the editor of 2004 in the context of the U.S. presidential election campaign published The Future Dictionary of America, a collection of political essays by writers such as Paul Auster, Stephen King, Richard Powers or Joyce Carol Oates.

Together with Michael Goldberg Dave Eggers wrote the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are ( dt Where the Wild Things Are ), the published 2009 film by Spike Jonze. The film is an adaptation of the eponymous children's book by Maurice Sendak. Based on the screenplay, the book was published The Wild Things, in which Eggers, the only 333 -word picture story expanded into an all-age novel. In addition, he wrote in collaboration with Vendela Vida the screenplay for the movie Away We Go - On to Somewhere by Sam Mendes, who also started in 2009 in the cinema.

Dave Eggers is married to Vendela Vida since 2003 and lives with his wife and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area, the area around the bay of San Francisco.

Work

Although A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000 ) is based on a true story, the life of the writer himself, but contains numerous fictional elements, so that the book ultimately represents a hybrid of novel and autobiography. The publication focuses on the situation Eggers following the cancer death of his parents, by the 22 -year-old suddenly belongs solely responsible for his little brother.

The book is distinguished by a special ironic attitude towards the events occurring and the readers, as well as by a variety of unusual stylistic elements. Thus, the author provides introductory comments and suggestions to correct and entertaining as possible reading and confesses it a fact, that some of the chapters of the book could be quite over scrolls. The American paperback edition contains a partial edition of an additional annex Mistakes We Knew We Were Making, in which Eggers corrected some statements in the novel and further explains. In the literature on correlations between A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the novel Infinite Jest (1996 ) by David Foster Wallace mention is made of. Here there is both contextual and thematic overlaps (including criticism of the postmodern use of irony )

You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002 ) is the first purely fictional novel by Dave Eggers. Again, the death is to trigger the actual story. Goods previously Eggers and his brother, the protagonists, the novel now revolves around two friends Will and hand. You Shall Know Our Velocity has been published in 2003 in a revised version.

Awards

• 2001 Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• 2003 Independent Book Award for You Shall Know Our Velocity
• 2012 Albatros Literature Prize for Zeitoun. Eggers said his participation in the ceremony from because of the expected end- and useless statements in vogue the debates on the Grass Poem What needs to be said. He was endowed with 40,000 Euro prize along with his translators Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann, which opposes accepted the award.

Works

Novels, short stories

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Novel., 2000. A heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: a true story. ger of Leonie von Reppert - Bismarck and Thomas Rütten. Earthscan, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-462-03629-7.

• You will not (yet) realize how fast we are. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Earthscan, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-462-03734- X.

• How hungry we are. German Klaus Timmermann and Ulrike Wasel. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03615-7.

• Far left: Valentino Achak Deng 's life. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Malevich, Köln 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04033-3.

• In the Wild Things. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04176-7.

• Zeitoun. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04299-3.

• A hologram for the king. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04518-5.

Screenplays

• 2009 Away We Go ( along with Vendela Vida ) Away We Go - On to Somewhere

• Where the Wild Things Are

• Promised Land