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词条 Ben Fountain
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Writing career

  3. Personal life

  4. Awards and honors

  5. Bibliography

     Books  Short fiction 

  6. References

  7. External links

Ben Fountain (born 1958) is an American fiction writer currently living in Dallas, Texas. He has won many awards including a PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (2007) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his debut novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012).

Early life

Fountain was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He grew up in Elizabeth City, a tobacco town in eastern North Carolina. His family moved to Cary, near Raleigh, when he was 13. Fountain earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980, and a law degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1983.[1] After a brief stint practicing real estate law at Akin Gump in Dallas, Fountain quit law in 1988 to become a full-time fiction writer.[2]

Writing career

While collecting articles about things he was interested in, Fountain was riveted by Haiti, regarding it "like a laboratory, almost ... Everything that’s gone on in the last five hundred years—colonialism, race, power, politics, ecological disasters—it’s all there in very concentrated form. And also I just felt, viscerally, pretty comfortable there." Speaking little French, let alone Haitian Creole, he went for his first trip abroad there in 1991 and at least thirty more times. From this came four of the best regarded stories in his 2006 breakthrough collection of short stories: Brief Encounters With Che Guevara; a late bloomer, he was forty-eight.[2][3] He has won numerous awards and inclusion of his work in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (2006).[4]

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Fountain's debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, was released in early May 2012.[4][5] Ang Lee directed a film adaptation, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,[6][7] which began filming in 2015 and was released in November 2016.

Personal life

Fountain married Sharon (née Monahan), an attorney, in 1985; they met when both were students at Duke University School of Law. They have two children.[8]

Awards and honors

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  • 2002 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award {{Citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • 2003 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award[12]
  • 2005 Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award[9]
  • 2004 Pushcart Prize[10]
  • 2005 O. Henry Award [11]
  • 2006 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction [12]
  • 2007 O. Henry Award {{Citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara[12]
  • 2007 Whiting Award[13]
  • 2012 National Book Award (fiction), finalist, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk[14]
  • 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards International Author of the Year shortlist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk[15][16]
  • 2012 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards 2012, Best Fiction finalist for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk[17]
  • 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
  • 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk[18][19][19]
  • 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (fiction), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk[20][21]
  • 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize (fiction), runner-up, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk[22]
  • 2013 Chautauqua Prize, shortlist, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk[23]

Bibliography

Books

  • Brief Encounters With Che Guevara (Ecco, 2006, {{ISBN|0060885580}})
  • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ecco, 2012, {{ISBN|9780060885595}})
  • Beautiful Country Burn Again (Ecco, 2018, {{ISBN|9780062688842}}

Short fiction

  • "Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera," Zoetrobe: All-Story, Spring 2002
  • "The Good Ones Are Already Taken," The Barcelona Review

References

1. ^"Ben Fountain," Barnes & Noble biography
2. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-2?intcid=mod-most-popular | title=Late Bloomers. Why do we equate genius with precocity? | work=The New Yorker | date=October 20, 2008 | accessdate=January 4, 2016 | author=Malcolm Gladwell}}
3. ^Gladwell, Malcolm (2009) And Other Adventures. Little, Brown & Co. New York, pp. 295−297.
4. ^1 {{cite news |title=Ben Fountain interview |work=Texas Monthly |url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-02-01/feature15.php |date=February 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829191149/http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-02-01/feature15.php |archivedate=2008-08-29 |df= }}
5. ^1 {{cite news|title=Ask the Author |work=D Magazine |url=http://readingroom.dmagazine.com/2010/02/09/ask-the-author-ben-fountain-will-take-your-questions-now/ |date=February 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710141007/http://readingroom.dmagazine.com/2010/02/09/ask-the-author-ben-fountain-will-take-your-questions-now/ |archivedate=2011-07-10 |df= }}
6. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/14/billy-flynn-long-halftime-walk-adalt-film4 | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Ben | last=Child | title=Slumdog Millionaire writer adapts Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | date=November 14, 2012}}
7. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=123093 | title=Oscar-Winner Ang Lee Will Direct Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | date=September 18, 2014}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-2|title=Late Bloomers|author=Malcolm Gladwell|date=20 October 2008|work=The New Yorker}}
9. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/archives/TIL%20Awards%20History.pdf|title=Texas Institute of Letters Awards|publisher=Texas Institute of Letters|accessdate=2013-05-25|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220072405/http://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/archives/TIL%20Awards%20History.pdf|archivedate=2013-12-20|df=}}
10. ^{{cite book |editor-first=Bill |editor-last=Henderson |title=The Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2004 Edition |publisher=Pushcart Press |year=2004 }}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html#jump_f|title=The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories: Past Winners List |publisher=Randomhouse.com |accessdate=2013-05-25}}
12. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=30481|title=Ben Fountain: About the Author |publisher=HarperCollins |accessdate=2013-05-25}}
13. ^{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Merschel |title=Dallas Author Ben Fountain Wins Whiting Award |work=Dallas Morning News |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-fountain_1025gl.ART.State.Edition1.422b88c.html |date=October 25, 2007}}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |title=National Book Award Finalists Announced Today |work=Library Journal |author= |date=October 10, 2012 |accessdate=November 15, 2012}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/authoraward/international-author-of-the-year/|title=International Author of the Year|work=National Book Awards 2014}}
16. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/author/ben-fountain/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-02-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128110751/http://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/author/ben-fountain/ |archivedate=2012-11-28 |df= }}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-fiction-books-2012#74617-Best-Fiction|title=Best Fiction 2012 — Goodreads Choice Awards|author=J.K. Rowling|work=Goodreads}}
18. ^https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gqyq7TkbdhOrdmC2QRwvH2tsxpOg?docId=d5562e8f80ad4b40b423ea9f41fb3c2c
19. ^1 {{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130228/us-books-critics-prizes/?ir=media | work=Huffington Post | title=National Book Critics Awards Winners | date=February 28, 2013}}
20. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-book-award-20130420,0,5547443.story | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Harriet | last=Ryan | title=War, and a warning, at L.A. Times book awards | date=April 19, 2013}}
21. ^{{cite news| url=http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/year-2012/ | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Los Angeles Times}}
22. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/entertainment/books-literature/2013-dayton-literary-peace-prize-winners-announced/nZ6W4/ |title=2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced |work=Dayton Daily News |author=Meredith Moss |date=September 24, 2013 |accessdate=September 26, 2013}}
23. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/05/15/timothy-egan-wins-chautauqua-prize-for-short-nights-of-the-shadow-catcher/ |title=Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" |work=Washington Post |author=Ron Charles |date=May 15, 2013 |accessdate=September 26, 2013}}

External links

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  • Profile at The Whiting Foundation
  • All-story.com
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