Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry ( * August 5, 1934 in Henry County, Kentucky) is an American essayist, poet, novelist, environmental activist, cultural critic and farmer.

Berry was the eldest of four children of Virginia Erdman Berry and John Marshall Berry, a lawyer and tobacco growers, to the world. The families of both parents have been resident for at least five generations in Henry County. Berry attended high school at Millersburg Military Institute. In 1957 he completed an MA in English at the University of Kentucky. In the same year he married Tanya Amyx. In 1958 he stipendierte as Wallace Stegner Fellow at Wallace Stegner at the Institute of Creative Writing at Stanford University. Among the other students were Edward Abbey and Ken Kesey. He taught at Stanford University, New York University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Kentucky.

Wendell Berry is committed to organic farming and why to call the contribution it can make to an agricultural culture with small-scale structures for the culture as a whole into consciousness. He is a dedicated opponent of agribusiness land management, monokullturellem cultivation, Massentierhaltungund nuclear industry. In his essay, he criticizes in particular the damage caused by agro-industrial farming methods humus loss and a resulting cultural impoverishment.

Berry has written more than 40 fiction, essays and works of poetry and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the 2010 National Humanities Medal, presented by President Barack Obama, and the 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Wendell Berry lives and works with his wife Tanya on the common farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.

Works in German translation

  • Remember. Ostfildern: Edition tertium, 1995.
  • Living with traction. Essays on agricultural culture and non-culture. Pieces: Degreif, 2000.

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