Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout ( born January 6, 1956 in Portland, Maine) is an American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Olive Kitteridge.

Life

Elizabeth Strout graduated after the conclusion of Bates College and a study visit to Oxford to study law at Syracuse University and graduated in 1982 with honors. She also graduated from a degree in gerontology and began after graduation with the writing of short stories for the magazines New Letters, Redbook and Seventeen.

She published in 1998 with Amy and Isabelle her first novel, which was awarded in 1999 with the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the best first film and is about a mother -daughter relationship in Massachusetts and the love of the minor daughter to her math teacher. 2001, the substance of Lloyd Kramer with Elizabeth Shue and Hanna Hall in the roles of, Isabelle Goodrow ' and, Amy Goodrow ' as a television film was staged.

After her novel Abide with me (2005) she had her biggest literary success with Olive Kitteridge (2007). For this novel about the life-affirming living in Maine retired mathematics teacher Olive Kitteridge ' she was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 Premio Bancarella. In addition to her literary career she was also a lecturer in Creative Writing at Colgate University and Queens University of Charlotte.

Works

• Amy and Isabelle, Random House, 1999, ISBN 0375501347
• Abide with me. A Novel, Random House, 2005, ISBN 1400062071
• Olive Kitteridge, Random House, 2007, ISBN 9781400062089

• Amy & Isabelle, Piper, 2000, ISBN 3-492-04200-7
• With sea views, ( Original title: Olive Kitteridge ), Luchterhand, 2010, ISBN 978-3-630-87330-5
• Life, of course. Translated from English by Sabine Roth and Walter Ahlers. Luchterhand, Munich 2013