George Pelecanos
George P. Pelecanos ( born February 18, 1957 in Washington, DC) is an American journalist, crime writer, screenwriter and producer.
Life
George P. Pelecanos has Greek ancestry and grew up in Washington DC on, where his father emigrated as a child. Born into a working class family Pelecanos helped the family, which earned etc. in the Greek scene with immigrants working in the airline catering, bars, coffeeshops their livelihood. Until age 32 he worked in various jobs, including as an electronics merchant, shoe salesman, construction worker or as a bartender and completed at the same time to study art at the Maryland University. Then Pelecanos began writing and published in 1992 with A Firing Offense the first part of the Nick Stefanos trilogy. In this and seven other novels, the story of Washington for several decades - From the perspective of the little people describes Pelecanos - socially critical. His novels are all in Washington, D.C. and environment.
Pelecanos ' literary talent secured him journalistic publications in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the American edition of Gentlemen's Quarterly ( GQ ), in Washingtonian magazine culture and many other publications.
Pelecanos was a producer, screenwriter and writer for film and television very successful. For the famous U.S. TV series The Wire, he wrote seven screenplays, most of the 4th season, which earned him a nomination for the Emmy.
George P. Pelecanos lives with his wife and three children in Silver Spring / Maryland.
Awards
Works
The Nick Stefanos trilogy
The Washington - Noir Series
- King Suckerman, German by Bernd W. Wood judges, DuMont, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3-7701-5017-1
- A sweet eternity, German by Bernd W. Wood judges, DuMont, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-8321-5323-3
Derek Strange / Terry Quinn series
- 2001 Right as Rain Shot Black, German by Bettina Zeller, Red Book, Hamburg 2003. ISBN 3-434-53114-9
- Of anger, German by Bettina Zeller, Red Book, Hamburg 2004. ISBN 3-434-54055-5
Other novels
- No way back, German by Anja Schünemann, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010. ISBN 978-3-499-25427-7
- A dirty business, German by Jochen Schwarzer, Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2012. ISBN 978-3-499-25885-5
Anthologies as editor
- 2006 D.C. Noir
- 2008 Best American Mystery Stories 2008
TV screenplays for the television series The Wire
- 2002 Cleaning Up. Season 1, Episode 12. First broadcast: September 1, 2002 (Eng. The purge first broadcast. November 30, 2008 )
- 2003 Duck and Cover. Season 2, Episode 8. First broadcast: July 27, 2003 ( German Back to the roots first broadcast. January 29, 2009 )
- 2004 Hamsterdam. Season 3, Episode 4. First broadcast: October 10, 2004 ( German Hamsterdam first broadcast. December 23, 2009 )
- 2004 slapstick. Season 3, Episode 9 First broadcast: November 21, 2004 (Eng. The free zone first broadcast. January 19, 2010 )
- 2004 Middle Ground. Season 3, Episode 11 First broadcast: December 12, 2004 ( German Life and Death in Baltimore first broadcast. February 5, 2010 )
- 2006 That's Got His Own. Season 4, Episode 12 First broadcast: December 3, 2006 ( dt on its own two feet first broadcast 21. May 2010)
- 2008 Late Editions. Season 5, Episode 9. First broadcast: March 2, 2008 (German Late Editions first broadcast. July 9, 2010 )
TV screenplays for television series The Pacific
- 2010 Melbourne (along with Michelle Ashford ). 3rd episode. First broadcast: March 28, 2010 (Eng. Melbourne First broadcast: 29. July 2010)