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Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of three novels. His first,
The Virgin Suicides, was made into a film by Sofia Coppola. His second, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the WELT-Leteraturpreis and the Santiago de Compostela Literary Prize from Spain. Middlesex was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Médicis. In 2011, Eugenides published The Marriage Plot, which became a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Marriage Plot also won the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize in France. Eugenides is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages.
<p><strong>‘One of the finest novels in many years</strong> – a <em>Catcher in the Rye</em> for our time' <em>Observer</em></p>
<p><strong>‘Eccentric, amusing, moving</strong> … Eugenides’s assured mixture of heartfelt nostalgia and dark humour makes for <strong>a mesmerising read</strong>’ <em>Independent</em></p>
<p>‘A flare from my own secret world, <strong>all the inchoate longings and obsessions of being a teenager somehow rendered into book form</strong>’ Emma Cline, author of <em>The Girls</em></p>
<p>'Entire and unstoppable … <strong>a sparkling work</strong>' <em>The Times</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary</strong>’<em> New York Times</em></p>
<p>‘Uncannily evokes <strong>the wry voice of adolescence</strong> and a mixture of <strong>curiosity, lust, tenderness, morbidity, cynicism and naivety</strong> surrounding these bizarre events’ <em>Wall Street Journal</em></p>
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of three novels. His first,
The Virgin Suicides, was made into a film by Sofia Coppola. His second, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the WELT-Leteraturpreis and the Santiago de Compostela Literary Prize from Spain. Middlesex was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Médicis. In 2011, Eugenides published The Marriage Plot, which became a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Marriage Plot also won the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize in France. Eugenides is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages.