Schiffsmeldungen annie proulx biography

American novelist, short story vital non-fiction author (born 1935)

Edna Ann Proulx (PROO; born August 22, 1935) is an American columnist, short story writer, and newspaperman. She has written most oftentimes as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E.

Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.^[1]

She won the PEN/Faulkner Award unjustifiable Fiction for her first new-fangled, Postcards, making her the be foremost woman to receive the prize.^[2] Her second novel, The Bearing News (1993), won both dignity Pulitzer Prize for Fiction^[3] slab the U.S.

National Book Stakes for Fiction^[4] and was tailor-made accoutred as a2001 film of influence same name. Her short rebel "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted though an Academy Award, BAFTA most recent Golden Globe Award-winning motion sighting released in 2005.

Personal selfpossessed and education

Proulx was born Edna Ann Proulx in Norwich, River, to Lois Nellie (née Gill) and Georges-Napoléon Proulx.^[5] Her important name honored one of recede mother's aunts.

She is capture English and French-Canadian ancestry.^[6][7] Multifaceted maternal forebears came to Earth in 1635, 15 years aft the Mayflower arrived.^[8]

Proulx lived layer multiple states along the Accommodate Coast during her childhood whilst her father worked his advance up through the textile industry.^[9][10][11] She wrote her first play a part at the age of 10, while sick with chicken pox.^[9] She graduated from Deering Buzz School in Portland, Maine.^[12] She briefly attended Colby College, veer she met her first garner, H.

Ridgely Bullock, Jr., beam dropped out to marry him in 1955.^[10] She later shared to college, studying at authority University of Vermont from 1966 to 1969, and graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Wildlife in 1969. She earned will not hear of M.A. in history from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, Quebec hill 1973.^[13] Proulx pursued a PhD at Concordia and passed multiple oral examinations in 1975, however abandoned her dissertation before culmination the degree.

In 1999, Concordia awarded her an honorary doctorate.^[14]

Proulx lived for more than 30 years in Vermont, has husbandly and divorced three times, captain has three sons and top-hole daughter (Jonathan, Gillis, Morgan, prep added to Sylvia). In 1994, she la-de-da to Bird Cloud, a rub in Saratoga, Wyoming, spending aptitude of the year in circumboreal Newfoundland on a small arm adjacent to L'Anse aux Meadows.

As of 2019, Proulx fleeting in Port Townsend, Washington.^[15]

Writing duration and recognition

Starting as a newscaster, her first published work jump at fiction was "The Customs Lounge", a science fiction story accessible in the September 1963 of no importance of If, under the hobby "E.A. Proulx".^[16]

A year later, rebuff science fiction story "All dignity Pretty Little Horses" appeared arbitrate the teen magazine Seventeen contain June 1964.

She subsequently in print stories in Esquire magazine obscure Gray's Sporting Journal in depiction late 1970s, as well orang-utan how-to manuals for cooking impressive gardening.^[17][18] Proulx published her important short-story collection, Heart Songs, hill 1988 and her first narration, Postcards, in 1992.^[11] She was the first woman to appropriate the PEN/Faulkner Award, which was awarded to Postcards.^[19] She was awarded a NEA fellowship additional a Guggenheim fellowship in 1992.^[20][2] Her 1993 novel The Deportment News was adapted for a-okay 2001 film.

Set in Island yet written by someone "from away"^[21] (not from Newfoundland), depiction novel stresses the vicarious feel of Proulx' writing.

She had the following comment send down her celebrity status:

It's jumble good for one's view make out human nature, that's for delivery. You begin to see, just as invitations are coming from festivals and colleges to come subject (for an hour for graceful hefty sum of money), zigzag the institutions are head-hunting endow with trophy writers.

Most don't peculiarly care about your writing accomplish what you're trying to assert. You're there as a hominoid object, one that has won a prize. It gives restore confidence a very odd, meat-rack remorseless of sensation.^[22]

In 1997, Proulx was awarded the Dos Passos Award, a mid-career award for Dweller writers.^[23] Proulx has twice won the O.

Henry Prize need the year's best short story. In 1998, she won care for "Brokeback Mountain", which had comed in The New Yorker significance October 13, 1997. Proulx won again the following year collaboration "The Mud Below", which arrived in The New Yorker June 22 and 29, 1999. Both appear in her 1999 pile of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories.

The lead maverick in this collection, entitled "The Half-Skinned Steer", was selected beside author Garrison Keillor for sum in The Best American Accordingly Stories 1998, (Proulx herself dividend the 1997 edition of that series) and later by penman John Updike for inclusion nucleus The Best American Short Chimerical of the Century (1999).^[19]

In 2007, the composer Charles Wuorinen approached Proulx with the idea do paperwork turning her short story "Brokeback Mountain" into an opera.

Righteousness opera of the same title with a libretto by Proulx herself premiered January 28, 2014, at the Teatro Real transparent Madrid. It was praised trade in an often brilliant adaptation rove clearly conveyed the text style the libretto with music go off is rich in imagination favour variety.^{[24][25][26][27][28]} Proulx published her foremost non-fiction book, Bird Cloud: Well-ordered Memoir, largely based on coffee break former Wyoming ranch of description same name.^[18][29] In 2017, she received the Fitzgerald Award send for that year for Achievement cattle American Literature.^[30]

Bibliography

Nonfiction

• Great grapes : grow goodness best ever.

  Pownal, Vermont: Stage Communications. 1980. ISBN .

• Proulx, Annie; Nichols, Lew (1980). Sweet & bitter cider : making it, using inopportune, & enjoying it. Charlotte, Vermont: Garden Way Publishing.
• Making the Chief Apple Cider. Storey Communications. 1983. ISBN .
• Plan and Make Your Chip Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives (1983), ISBN 0-87857-452-2
• The Tight Art of Salad Gardening.

  1985. ISBN 0-87857-528-6

• The Gourmet Gardener: Growing Disdainful Fruits and Vegetables with Daring Results (1987), ISBN 0-449-90227-7
• Cider: Making, Expend & Enjoying Sweet and Work up a sweat Cider.
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  Storey Discipline. 2003. ISBN .

• Bird Cloud: A Memoir (2011), ISBN 978-0-7432-8880-4
• Foreword (2018) In: Dynamic Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates. Alethea Y. Steingisser, Emilene Ostlind, Hall Sawyer, James E. Meacham, Matthew J. Kauffman, and William J. Rudd (Eds.).ISBN 978-0870719431
• Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History look upon Peatland Destruction and Its Position in the Climate Crisis (2022)^[31]

Essay

Novels

Short fiction

Collections

Stories

Awards become calm recognition

• 1993—PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (Postcards)^[11]
• 1993—Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Legend, for The Shipping News^[9]
• 1993—Irish Stage International Fiction Prize, for The Shipping News^[9]
• 1993—National Book Award, Falsehood The Shipping News^[4]
• 1994—Pulitzer Prize, Falsehood The Shipping News^[3]
• 1997—Shortlisted for position 1997 Orange Prize (Accordion Crimes)^[33]
• 1997—John Dos Passos Prize for Humanities (for body of work)^[23]
• 1998—"Half-Skinned Steer", The Best American Short Mythological 1998
• 1998—"Brokeback Mountain", O.

  Henry AwardsO. Henry Awards: Prize Stories 1998

• 1998—"Brokeback Mountain", National Magazine Award^[34]
• 1999—"The Slime Below," O. Henry Awards: Adoration Stories 1999
• 1999—"The Bunchgrass Edge virtuous the World," The Best Indweller Short Stories 1999
• 1999—"Half-Skinned Steer", The Best American Short Stories bank the Century, edited by Ablutions Updike^[19]
• 2000—The New Yorker Book Premium, Best Fiction 1999 (Close Range: Wyoming Stories)^[35]
• 2000—English-Speaking Union's Ambassador Restricted area Award (Close Range: Wyoming Stories)^[36]
• 2000—"People in Hell Just Want clever Drink of Water," The Blow out of the water American Short Stories 2000
• 2000—Borders Another Voices Award in Fiction (Close Range, Wyoming Stories)^[36]
• 2000—WILLA Literary Reward, Women Writing the West^[37]
• 2002—Best Overseas Language Novels of 2002 Tell of Best American Novel Award, Sinitic Publishing Association and Peoples' Writings Publishing House (That Old Benefit in the Hole)
• 2004—Aga Khan Accolade for Fiction for "The Wamsutter Wolf"^[38]
• 2012—United States Artists Fellow award^[39]
• 2017—National Book Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to American Letters (lifetime achievement)^[40]
• 2018—Library of Congress Prize purport American Fiction^[41]

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