Maeve Brennan

Maeve Brennan ( * 1917 in Dublin, † 1993 in New York) was an Irish- American journalist and writer.

Life

Maeve Brennan moved in 1934 with her ​​family in the U.S. over where her father Robert Brennan of the Irish representation in Washington, DC was professionally active. Since 1949, she worked in the editorial department of the New York, where she published until 1973 reviews, essays and prose works and Truman Capote met. The daughter of the Messenger of the Irish Republic in the United States married her editor in chief St.Clair McKelway from New York. She lived with him for a few years on the east side of the Hudson River near New York in the small settlement of Sneden 's Landing, which is now called Palisades, offering the likes of Al Pacino or Björk abode. The place is the scene of the narrative collection Dance of the maids. New York Stories.

Brennan suffered later schizophrenic relapses and was repeatedly admitted to psychiatric hospitals. The as a young woman with beauty, wit and repartee Salient died at the age of 76 years lonely and impoverished in 1993 in New York.

Work

Many of the written by Brennan works were published posthumously. Your short story The Visitor ( The Visitor ), she wrote back in the 1940s. However, it was discovered only in the late 1990s in an archive and published with great success in 2000 in the USA and in 2001 in England and Ireland. The German edition was published in 2003. Band Mr. and Mrs. Derdon gathered several short stories about the Dublin couple Hubert and Rose Derdon incurred 1952-1973. The German (partial) edition appeared in 2006.

Bibliography

If any - - In brackets the original year of publication and are the title of the German translation and the year of first publication of the German edition stated.

  • In and Out of Never - Neverland ( short stories, 1969).
  • The Long - Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker ( non-fiction short stories, 1969).
  • Christmas Eve ( short stories, 1974).
  • The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin ( short stories, 1997, German 2006).
  • The Long - Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker ( enlarged edition, 1998).
  • The Rose Garden: Short Stories ( short stories, 2000, German 2010).
  • The Visitor ( short story, 2000, German 2003).
  • The Visitor. Amendment ( Original title: The Visitor ). From the English and with an afterword by Hans- Christian Oeser; Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2003. ISBN 3-88243-937-8.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Derdon. Stories of a marriage ( Original title:. The Springs of Affection ); Title according to DNB: The carpet with the big pinkfabenen Rosen ( 2007). Translated from English by Hans- Christian Oeser. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2006. ISBN 3-86521-247-6.
  • The morning after the great fire. Translated from English by Hans- Christian Oeser. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86521-880-3.
  • Dance of the maids. New York Stories ( Original title: The Rose Garden ). Translated from English by Hans- Christian Oeser. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86930-078-8.
  • New York, New York. Columns (Original Title: The Long - Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker). Translated from English by Hans- Christian Oeser. Steidl, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-466-3.
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