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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 visa mer 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) visa färre

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Vedertaget namn
Tartt, Donna
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Tartt, Donna Louise
Andra namn
Tartt, Donna Louise (birth name)
Födelsedag
1963-12-23
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Greenwood, Mississippi, Amerika
Bostadsorter
Grenada, Mississippi, Amerika
Utbildning
Bennington College, Vermont, Amerika
Yrken
auteur
Priser och utmärkelser
WH Smith Literary Award 2003
Kort biografi
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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Det här är en mordhistoria utan att vara en deckare. Det är en relativt stillsam roman med ett intressant persongalleri och den saknar många av de vanliga ingredienserna som en deckare har. En liten grupp studenter som läser grekiska är huvudpersonerna. Det är ett sammansvetsat gäng, som blir än mer sammansvetsat när en man råkar bli mördad. Jag tror att det är en bok för den som vill ha ett relationsdrama med spänning, snarare än någon som är ute efter en spänningsroman.
 
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lotzen | 551 andra recensioner | Jan 16, 2018 |
Spännande intrig. Lite av utvecklingsroman vad avser huvudpersonen. Hyllning till konsten. Intressant med miljöskildringarna i New York.
 
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Humila | 795 andra recensioner | Sep 7, 2015 |
Boken är jättebra... fram till att mordet sker. Sedan tappar den momentet och blir en ganska långdragen historia fram till slutet. Kanske skulle författaren kapat bort lite av den senare delen av berättelsen, eller åtminstone komprimera den.

Nu låter det som om jag totalsågar boken, men så dålig är den inte. Den är helt klart värd att läsas, men det finns bättre böcker.
 
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pelo75 | 551 andra recensioner | Jan 28, 2015 |

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