Joseph Pearson (writer)
Joseph Pearson | |
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| Born | Edmonton, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian / Italian |
Joseph Sanders Pearson (born 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian essayist, cultural historian, and journalist.
Life[]
Between 1997 and 2001, Pearson received his doctorate in Modern History at the University of Cambridge.[1] [2] Pearson has taught in the humanities at Columbia University,[3] New York University,[4] the Berlin University of the Arts,[5] and the Barenboim-Said Academy, a peace project headed by conductor Daniel Barenboim.[6] He is the nephew of children's novelist Kit Pearson.[7]
Career[]
His history and portrait of the German capital, Berlin, was published by and University of Chicago Press[8] in 2017. The Independent called Berlin "the last word in explaining not only Berlin’s incredible history, but also its present day cultural situation"[9] and Bloomberg reported that the book "masterfully offers a close reading of the metropolis in all its brutal immediacy".[10] The book was also positively reviewed in The German Studies Review.[11]
His work has appeared in Newsweek,[12] The New England Review,[13][14] the BBC,[15] AGNI,[16] Monocle Magazine,[17] Prism International[18] and many other publications. His non-fiction has been translated into German, French, Arabic, Mandarin and other languages.[19]
Pearson is based in Berlin, Germany, where he is the in-house essayist of the Schaubühne Theatre[20] and the editor of The Needle,[21] one of Berlin's most popular blogs.[22] He is a founding member of the artist collective, 'AGOSTO'.[23]
Awards[]
In 2020, he was awarded the Jacob Zilber Second Prize for Short Fiction, for his story "An Iconostasis".[24] The story was nominated in 2020 for the Pushcart Prize.[25]
References[]
- ^ Brendan Simms (4 July 2002). Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (ref. 216). Penguin Books Limited. p. 543. ISBN 978-0-14-193767-0.
- ^ Pearson, Joseph Sanders. (17 July 2001). British press reactions to the onset of war in ex-Yugoslavia (PhD). Faculty of History: University of Cambridge.
- ^ Slow Travel Author Biography Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ Joseph Pearson lectures at NYU Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Your Berlin Story - An Alternative Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop". Berlin University of the Arts. The Universität der Künste Berlin. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Faculty Profile Barenboim-Said Academy". Barenboim-Said Academy. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ Pearson, Kit (18 September 2007). Kit Pearson's first novel The Daring Game is dedicated to her nephew and niece. ISBN 9780143186342. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ Reaktion Press Publication List (2018) Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ The Independent (London) 15 September 2017 Retrieved 10 July 2018
- ^ Blooomberg Review on U Chicago Author Page Retrieved 10 July 2018
- ^ Mirko M. Hall, "Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by Paul Hockenos, and: Cityscopes: Berlin by Joseph Pearson", vol. 41, no. 2 (2018), German Studies Review Retrieved 21 November 2018
- ^ Pearson, Joseph (12 April 2016). "German Theater Director Thomas Ostermeier Takes on the Far-Right". Newsweek. 2018 Newsweek LLC. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ Pearson, Joseph. "This Is Also Tangier". New England Review. NER. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Three German Cities", New England Review Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ Pearson, Joseph (23 October 2017). "What the German Language reveals about attitudes to work". BBC Capital. BBC. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ AGNI authors Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ "Habsburg Hipsters and the Future of Europe", Monocle Forecast (2016) Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ Prism International Portraits of prize winners Retrieved 2 Feb 2021
- ^ The Needle, About the Author Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ Pearson's Preview, Schaubühne Theatre Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ The Needle Berlin: About the Editor Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ Berlin's Best Blogs Retrieved 5 July 2018
- ^ AGOSTO / artist collective website Retrieved 12 January 2021
- ^ PRISM International literary magazine webpage Retrieved 19 April 2020
- ^ Author's webpage Retrieved 7 January 2021
External links[]
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 1975 births
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Writers from Edmonton
- Living people
- Canadian male journalists
- 21st-century Canadian historians
- 21st-century Canadian essayists
- Canadian male essayists
- 21st-century Canadian journalists
- Canadian expatriate writers
- Canadian expatriates in Germany
- Cultural historians
- Canadian bloggers
- Historians of Germany
- Male bloggers