John Updike
| John Updike | |
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| Personlig information | |
| Født | 18. marts 1932  Reading, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Død | 27. januar 2009 (76 år) Danvers, Massachusetts, USA |
| Dødsårsag | Lungekræft |
| Gravsted | Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery |
| Far | Wesley Russell Updike |
| Mor | Linda Grace Hoyer |
| Ægtefæller | Mary Entwistle Pennington, Martha Ruggles Bernhard |
| Børn | David Updike, Elizabeth Updike Cobblah |
| Uddannelse og virke | |
| Uddannelsessted | Harvard Universitet (1950-1954), Harvard College, Governor Mifflin Senior High School, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (fra 1954) |
| Medlem af | American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, PEN American Center, Inc. |
| Beskæftigelse | Essayist, science fiction-forfatter, journalist, dramatiker, forfatter, kunstkritiker, litteraturkritiker, forfatter, børnebogsforfatter, digter med flere |
| Kendte værker | Heksene i Eastwick |
| Bevægelse | Modernist literature |
| Påvirket af | Karl Barth, James Thurber, Henry Green, Truman Capote, Italo Calvino med flere |
| Nomineringer og priser | |
| Udmærkelser | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1981, 1990), National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (1983), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2004), PEN/Malamud Award (1988), Guggenheim-Stipendium med flere |
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John Hoyer Updike (18. marts 1932 i Reading, Pennsylvania – 27. januar 2009 i Beverly, Massachusetts) var en amerikansk forfatter og digter.
Hans værker blev udgivet i The New Yorker siden 1954. Han vandt Pulitzerprisen for Rabbit is Rich i 1981 og for Rabbit at Rest i 1990.
Udvalgt bibliografi
Romaner
- Rabbit, Run (1960), da. Hare Hop (1963)
- Rabbit Redux (1971)
- Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
- The Witches of Eastwick (1984, filmatiseret 1987)
- Rabbit At Rest (1990)
- Gertrude and Claudius (2000, en forløber til Hamlet)
- Rabbit Remembered (2001)
- Terrorist (2006), samme titel på dansk
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