Richard Powers
Richard Powers ( born June 18, 1957 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American writer. He is regarded as an important novelist of the present. Powers was known primarily for literary treatment of scientific and philosophical subjects, such as the current brain research and its psychological implications in his famous and award-winning work The echo of the memory or the musicality and their political relevance in his family saga The sound of the time.
Life
Richard Powers grew up in a suburb of Chicago. At the age of eleven, he went with his family to Bangkok, where his father had taken a job as a teacher at the International School. After five years he returned to the U.S. and studied at the University of Illinois physics.
Powers changed his profession and studied literature, which will also frustrated him. He first took a job as a programmer. A photograph by August Sander at the Art Museum of Boston, showing three farmers from the Westerwald 1914 on the way to a hard, fascinated him so that he resigned from his job and his first novel Three Farmers wrote on the way to dance. The book was a surprising success.
In 1985 he moved to the Netherlands, where he wrote his second novel Prisoner 's Dilemma to an end and another, The Gold Bug Variations, wrote. After spending a year at Cambridge, he returned in 1993 to the United States back and accepted a teaching position at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign and published five more novels. He currently lives in Urbana, Illinois.
In 1989, Powers the "Genius Award " of the MacArthur Foundation, and the 1999 Lannan Literary Award.
2006 Powers was awarded the echo the memory of the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel.
2008 was ever sequenced its genome, which in his report he describes the book I # 9 Powers as the ninth man.
In the summer term 2009 Richard Powers taught as Samuel Fischer Guest Professor at the Free University of Berlin.
Bibliography
German translations
- Galatea 2.2. Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-596-14276-8 (German by Werner Schmitz ). in paperback: S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14276-8.
- In paperback: S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-15382-4.
- As an audio book: Universal Classics and Jazz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8291-1550-4 ( read by Ulrich Matthes ).
- In paperback: S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-15971-7.
- As an audio book: Universal Family Entertainment, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8291-1760-4 ( read by Ulrich Matthes ).
- In paperback: S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17457-7.
- As a radio play: The Hörverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86717-486-2 (director of Free Fabian; Annett Renneberg, Florian Lukas, Gerd Boeckmann et al ).
- As an audio book: Argon Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86610-942-1 ( read by Ulrich Matthes ).