Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer ( born May 1, 1974 in New York City ) is an American writer.

Biography

Philipp Meyer grew up in Hampden, northwest of Baltimore, the son of an artist and an electrician on. He attended Baltimore City College, which he left with a GED at sixteen. In the following five years he worked as a bicycle mechanic and occasionally as a helper in a shock - trauma facility. At twenty, he attended classes at colleges in Baltimore, and decided to become a writer. Two years later he went to Cornell University in Ithaca and graduated with a degree in English from.

Subsequently, Meyer got a position as a derivatives dealer at the Swiss bank UBS with training in Zurich and London. After a few years his dream writer moved to be within reach by a grant from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, where he wrote most of his first novel, American Rust. In 2008 he received a Master of Fine Arts of the Michener Center and in 2010 a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Other grants from MacDowell and The Anderson Center for the Arts followed. In addition to his novel, Meyer wrote short stories for American and British newspapers. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Reception

Philipp Meyer's debut novel rust, tells of the inner and outer decline of America. Rust as a symbol of lethargy and decay, for consolation and hope. Rust but also as a metaphor for a prosperous steel industry, which expires, and for an affected population, who dreams the American dream no more, but helpless faces the rusting remnants of their existence. In this archaic scenery, the plot of the novel is set. American Rust was awarded several debut prices. The New Yorker called Meyer one of the most important writers under 40. "Rust is a great American genre paintings and timeless portrait of people who live in unsettled the ruins of their hopes ." The novel was translated into several languages.

Publications

  • American Rust. 2009, ISBN 978-1-84739-412-5 German rust. Translator's v. Frank Heibert. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-93893-7 ).

Awards

  • 2009: Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Art Silk Tree Award for First Fiction, American Rust
  • 2010: Dobie Paisano Fellowship
  • 2010: Guggenheim Fellowship
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