Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi on December 23, 1963. She wrote her first novel while attending Bennington College, where she graduated in 1986. The novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. Her other works include The Little Friend, which won the WH Smith Literary Award in mehr anzeigen 2003, and The Goldfinch, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for Best Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013 and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for Fiction. In 2014, Time named Tartt among their 100 Most Influential People. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Tartt, Donna
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Tartt, Donna Louise
- Andere Namen
- Tartt, Donna Louise (birth name)
- Geburtstag
- 1963-12-23
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- female
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- Amerika
- Geburtsort
- Greenwood, Mississippi, Amerika
- Wohnorte
- Grenada, Mississippi, Amerika
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- Bennington College, Vermont, Amerika
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- WH Smith Literary Award 2003
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- Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American author. Tartt's novels include The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013). Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014. She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.
Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi located in the Mississippi Delta, and raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Her father, Don Tartt, was a successful local politician, while her mother, Taylor, was a secretary. At age thirteen, Tartt was published for the first time when a sonnet was included in a Mississippi literary review.
Tartt enrolled in the University of Mississippi in 1981, where her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman. Following a recommendation from Morris, Barry Hannah, then an Ole Miss writer-in-residence, admitted the eighteen-year-old Tartt into his graduate course on the short story. "She was deeply literary," said Hannah. "Just a rare genius, really. A literary star."
Following the suggestion of Morris and others, she transferred to Bennington College in 1982. At Bennington, Tartt studied classics with Claude Fredericks.
In 2002, Tartt was reportedly working on a retelling of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus for the Canongate Myth Series, a series of novellas in which ancient myths are reimagined and rewritten by contemporary authors. In 2006, Tartt's short story "The Ambush" was included in the Best American Short Stories 2006.
Tartt is a convert to Catholicism and contributed an essay, "The spirit and writing in a secular world", to The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture (2000). In her essay Tartt wrote that "...faith is vital in the process of making my work and in the reasons I am driven to make it". However, Tartt also warned of the danger of writers who impose their beliefs or convictions on their novels. She wrote that writers should "shy from asserting those convictions directly in their work".
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Unter dem Einfluss ihres charismatischen Klassik-Professors entdeckt eine Gruppe cleverer, exzentrischer Außenseiter an einem Elite-College in Neuengland eine Denk- und Lebensweise, die eine Welt fernab der eintönigen Existenz ihrer Zeitgenossen ist. Doch wenn sie die Grenzen der normalen Moral überschreiten, schlittern sie allmählich von Besessenheit zu Korruption und Verrat und schließlich - unaufhaltsam - zum Bösen ab.
Theodore Decker survives a terrorist attack at a New York art museum in which his mother is killed. He takes a painting (Carel Fabritius’ The Goldfinch) from the museum. Since his mother is divorced Theodore lives with a wealthy family friend. Then Theo gets to know the antiques dealer Hobie and a young relative named Pippa who was also in the museum and survived. Then his father plus his girlfriend Xandra show up. They take Theo to Las Vegas. There Theo meets his friend Boris, with whom he dabbles in drugs and criminal activity. Then Theo´s father dies in a car accident Theo moves to New York ynd lives with Hobie.
This is the setting for the first half of the book and is told in every detail.
But then the story jumps eight years ahead into Theo´s life as a grown up. And now all the loose threads are taken up again and the story starts to become really exciting. What happens with the painting that everybody is looking for? Will Theo ever be happy without drugs? Will he come together with Pippa or would it be better to start with another woman?
I liked the book and even though all the praise it gets is maybe too much- it is still a very good book, well written, an interesting topic.… (mehr)
This is the setting for the first half of the book and is told in every detail.
But then the story jumps eight years ahead into Theo´s life as a grown up. And now all the loose threads are taken up again and the story starts to become really exciting. What happens with the painting that everybody is looking for? Will Theo ever be happy without drugs? Will he come together with Pippa or would it be better to start with another woman?
I liked the book and even though all the praise it gets is maybe too much- it is still a very good book, well written, an interesting topic.… (mehr)
Der Distelfink besteht aus zwei Teilen, der erste Teil ist die Erzählung einer schwierigen Jugend nach dem Tod der Mutter gespickt mit dickenschen Motiven, tote Mutter, abwesender Vater, habgierige Verwandte, Unterschlupf bei einer reichen New Yorker Familie, Antiquitätengeschäft mit freundlichem Besitzer, der Vater taucht auf und nimmt Sohn nach Las Vegas mit, Jugendfreundschaft a la Tschick mit Drogen, Alkohol und Mädchen. Der zweite Teil beginnt mit der Rückkehr nach New York und wird zum Thriller: Drogen, Kunstraub und Erpressung, spannend aber nicht so atmosphärisch dicht wie Die geheime Geschichte und nicht so komplex und vielschichtig wie Der kleine Freund.… (mehr)
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