Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson ( * November 26, 1943 as Marilynne Summers in Sandpoint, Idaho) is an American novelist and essayist.

Biography

Robinson studied at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University in 1977 and his doctorate at the University of Washington.

She wrote three major novels, Housekeeping (1980 ), Gilead (2004) and Home (2008 ) for which she was awarded several prizes. In addition, they published a whole series of non-fiction books as well as essays and articles in magazines such as Harper's, The Paris Review and The New York Times Book Review.

She was a visiting professor at various universities, including the University of Kent, the Amherst College, the University of Massachusetts and Yale University. In 2010 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She currently teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Iowa City.

Works

  • Housekeeping (1980 ) The eye of the lake, German by Sabine Reinhardt; Cologne, Kiepenheuer and Petrovich 1984. ISBN 3-462-01655-5
  • Other formats: home without stopping, revised translation by Sabine Reinhardt Jost; Hamburg, Edition Nautilus, 2012. ISBN 978-3-942374-23-1
  • Gilead, German Karl -Heinz Paving; Moers, Brendow 2006. ISBN 978-3-86506-152-2
  • Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989 )
  • The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought ( 1998)
  • Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010)

Awards

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