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Colson Whitehead

Forfatterbiografi

Colson Whitehead (født 6. november 1969) er en amerikansk forfatter kendt for romaner, der kombinerer social og historisk kritisk tænkning med genremæssige greb og en markant stilistisk opfindsomhed. Han har skrevet både realistiske og spekulative fortællinger, og værkerne undersøger ofte race, klasse og magtforhold i det amerikanske samfund. En af hans tidlige markeringer er Zone One (2011), hvor en zombieapokalypse fungerer som ramme om overlevelse og samfundsopløsning. Whitehead er siden blevet en central skikkelse i samtidens amerikanske litteratur, bl.a. for hans evne til at veksle mellem satire, genrethriller og historisk allegori. Hans internationale gennembrud forbindes især med The Underground Railroad (2016), som modtog Pulitzerprisen for Fiction, og senere The Nickel Boys (2019), der også gav ham Pulitzerprisen for Fiction. Det gør ham til en sjælden dobbelt vinder i Pulitzerens fiktionkategori og understreger hans betydning for 2000- og 2010’ernes litterære landskab, hvor romanen ofte både skal være underholdende og analytisk skarp.

Bøger af Colson Whitehead

'Zone One'
'Zone One'

Lydbog | n/a

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed

'Crook Manifesto'
'Crook Manifesto'

Bog | Engelsk

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. 'Glorious' New York Times Book Review 'The compelling energy of a crime thriller and the sharp wit of social satire'

'The Intuitionist'
'The Intuitionist'

Bog | Engelsk

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels b

'The Colossus of New York'
'The Colossus of New York'

Bog | Engelsk

In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York . Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has l

'Zone One'
'Zone One'

Bog | Engelsk

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad A p

'Harlem Shuffle'
'Harlem Shuffle'

Bog | Engelsk

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show) 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times ' Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came t

'Drengene fra Nickel'
'Drengene fra Nickel'

Bog | Dansk

"Drengene fra Nickel" af Colson Whitehead er endnu en stærk, glødende fortælling. Det er den anden bog fra en af amerikansk litteraturs største nutidige stemmer. I "Drengene fra Nickel" præsenteres vi for Elwood Curtis. Elwood Curtis e

'HARLEM SHUFFLE'
'HARLEM SHUFFLE'

Bog | Dansk

"HARLEM SHUFFLE" er Colson Whiteheads farverige og vilde kærlighedserklæring til 1960'ernes Harlem. Carney lever et ordentligt og lovlydigt liv på overfladen som respeskteret møbelhandler i Harlem. Sammen med sin kone Elizabeth venter de der

'Sag Harbor'
'Sag Harbor'

Bog | Engelsk

From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social

'The Underground Railroad'
'The Underground Railroad'

Bog | Engelsk

Colson Whitehead fortæller i "The Underground Railroad" den dramatiske historie om en ung, kvindelig slaves forsøg på at undslippe slaveriet i USAs sydstater inden borgerkrigen. Bogen har vundet talrige priser, blandt andet Pulitzerprisen, og er

'The Nickel Boys'
'The Nickel Boys'

Bog | Engelsk

'RaMell Ross's transcendentally moving and frightening film' ( Guardian , New York Film Festival) now a major motion picture and shortlisted for a Golden Globe. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLIT

'Den underjordiske jernbane'
'Den underjordiske jernbane'

Lydbog | Dansk

16-årige Cora er slave på en bomuldsplantage i Georgia. Hver eneste dag er fyldt med ængstelighed, fornedrelse og ydmygelse. Lyset for enden af tunnellen har dog altid været historien om Coras mor, Mabel, hvis usædvanlige og succesfulde flugt fra slavepla

'Zone One'
'Zone One'

Bog | Engelsk

From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhatta

'The Nickel Boys'
'The Nickel Boys'

Bog | Engelsk

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim

'Harlem Shuffle'
'Harlem Shuffle'

Bog | Engelsk

"Harlem Shuffle" by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead is a wild and highly entertaining novel about Harlem in the 1960s. Ray Carney sells furniture and tries to make a normal life for himself, his wife Elizabeth and soo

'Cool Machine'
'Cool Machine'

Bog | Engelsk

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner ColsonWhitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life. 'Colson Whitehead's trilogy ends with a bang... a street-l

'The Intuitionist'
'The Intuitionist'

Bog | Engelsk

'A thrilling blend of noir and fantasy.'Guardian. In an unnamed city - a hardboiled pre-Civil Rights New York sort of city -heroine Lila Mae has succeeded in becoming the very first Black female elevator inspector. In Whitehead's darkly comic

'Slyngelmanifestet'
'Slyngelmanifestet'

Bog | Dansk

Den dobbelte Pulitzerprisvinder fortsætter sin Harlem-saga med en slagkraftig, veloplagt og voldsomt underholdende roman, der fremmaner 1970'ernes New York i al sin lurvede glans. HARLEM, 1971. Kriminaliteten er på sit højeste, New York City er på ran

'Crook Manifesto'
'Crook Manifesto'

Bog | Engelsk

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY OPRAH DAILY, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME, NPR, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ESSENCE AND MORE 'Whether in high literary form or entertaining, page-turner mode, the man is simply incapable of writing a

'Crook Manifesto'
'Crook Manifesto'

Bog | Engelsk

'Glorious' New York Times Book Review 'The compelling energy of a crime thriller and the sharp wit of social satire' Guardian 'Whitehead's crime series is one of the most enjoyable streaks in recent fiction' Telegraph 'This

'The Nickel Boys'
'The Nickel Boys'

Bog | Engelsk

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times b

'The Underground Railroad'
'The Underground Railroad'

Bog | Engelsk

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora

'Cool Machine'
'Cool Machine'

Bog | Engelsk

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge