Resultaten voor 'john burnside'

1. Iris Murdoch

The Sea, The Sea

When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.

1. Abai Kunanbayev

Abai: Book of Songs

1. John , Burnside

Von Riesenalks und Auerochsen

Auf den Spuren der verlorenen Arten: kluge, berührende und nostalgische Essays über unseren Platz in der NaturIm Jahr 1844 thronen zwei große, schwarzweißgefiederte Vögel auf einem Basaltfelsen vor der Küste Islands. Doch Museumssammler haben es auf sie abgesehen. Mit ihrem watschelnden Gang versuchen die pinguinähnlichen Tiere zum Rand der Klippe zu fliehen; sie können jedoch nicht fliegen und werden in die Enge getrieben. So rotten die Sammler unwissentlich eine ganze Art aus: die Riesenalke. In seinen Essays begibt sich John Burnside auf die Spuren einer wilderen, reichhaltigeren Welt, und reflektiert auf kluge und berührende Art und Weise das Problem des menschenverursachten Aussterbens. Dabei geht es nicht nur um Artensterben, Burnside schließt verlorene Orte, Sprachen und kulturelle Vielfalt mit ein. So ist Von Riesenalks und Auerochsen Natur-, Kulturgeschichte und Zivilisationskritik zugleich, die für ein neues Verständnis unserer eigenen Sterblichkeit und unseres Platzes in der Welt eintritt. Eine tieftraurige Beschwörung dessen, was wir verloren haben - und ein dringliches Plädoyer dafür, das zu schützen, was uns noch bleibt.'Wie kein anderer beherrscht Burnside die Kunst, uns die Welt mit anderen Augen sehen zu lassen: Dieses Buch ist ein funkelndes Stück Literatur.' Matthias Jügler

1. John Burnside

Driftwork

John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. He died in 2024.

1. John Burnside

The Hoop

John Burnside was born on 19 March 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland, and now lives in Fife. He studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He is a former Writer in Residence at Dundee University and now teaches at the University of St Andrews. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His poetry collection, The Good Neighbour (2005), was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection). In 2008, he received a Cholmondeley Award. He is also the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and several novels, including The Dumb House (1997), The Mercy Boys (1999) and The Locust Room (2001), which is set in Cambridge in 1975, and explores the consequences of a series of violent rapes. His novel, Living Nowhere (2003), is a powerful and violent story of friendship and loss. Recent novels are The Devil's Footprints (2007), shortlisted for the 2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), and Glister (2008). John Burnside's memoir, A Lie About My Father, was published in 2006, and a sequel, Waking Up in Toytown, in 2010, shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Ackerley Prize. His latest collections of poetry are Gift Songs (2007) and The Hunt in the Forest (2009). His latest novel is A Summer of Drowning (2011), a suspense mystery narrated by a teenage girl.

1. Jürgen Partenheimer
2. José Angel Valente
3. Robert Creely

Jürgen Partenheimer. Die Entfernung Im Stand Luftwärts