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Nelson Algren war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award [2] and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Nelson Algren, American writer whose novels of the poor are lifted from routine naturalism by his vision of their pride, humor, and unquenchable yearnings. He also caught with poetic skill the mood of the city’s underside. Learn more about Algren’s life and career.
Born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, Nelson Algren grew up in Chicago, a city he would make famous through his depictions of its poor, working, and criminal classes. Algren’s affinity for the underside of American society marked his entire career; his novels and poems portray characters on the fringes of respectability. He once ...
19. März 2019 · In the end, Nelson Algren is rediscoverable for the very same reasons that he was forgotten in the first place: for his great political and literary instincts, his jabs against the status quo...
Nelson Algren, orig. Nelson Ahlgren Abraham, (born March 28, 1909, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died May 9, 1981, Sag Harbor, N.Y.), U.S. writer. The son of a machinist, Algren grew up in Chicago and worked his way through the University of Illinois during the Great Depression.
People note American writer Nelson Algren for his novels, including The Man with the Golden Arm (1949), about the pride and longings of impoverished people. Born of Swedish-immigrant parents, Nelson Ahlgren Abraham moved at an early age to Chicago. At University of Illinois, he studied journalism.
6. Apr. 2024 · We promote Algren’s values and bring about the recognition he was so consistently denied throughout his life. Ernest Hemingway called him one of America’s greatest novelists, second only to William Faulkner.
11. Juni 2018 · The American author Nelson Algren (1909-1981) wrote novels and short stories about underworld characters, often set in the slums of Chicago. Nelson Algren has been called the poet of the under-world. His characters are the pimps and pushers, clowns and con-men, hustlers and hookers, lushes and junkies, grotesqueries and freaks—in ...
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman. with a broken nose. Algren won the first National Book Award in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm, a novel set on Chicago’s Northwest Side and, like much of his work, concerned with the city’s quasi-criminal underbelly.
