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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth

American novelist (1933–2018).

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Statements about Philip Roth

Sex or Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Newark
New York City

Country of Citizenship

United States

Date of Birth

3/19/1933
3/18/1933

Instance Of

Human

Award Received

27 items
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Medal of Arts
National Humanities Medal
(2010)
Point in Time
: 2010
Franz Kafka Prize
(2001)
Point in Time
: 2001
Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
(2012)
Award Rationale
: La obra narrativa de Philip Roth forma parte de la gran novelística estadounidense, en la tradición de Dos Passos, Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow o Malamud. Personajes, hechos, tramas conforman una compleja visión de la realidad contemporánea que se debate entre la razón y los sentimientos, como el signo de los tiempos y el desasosiego del presente. Posee una calidad literaria que se muestra en una escritura fluida e incisiva.
Point in Time
: 2012
Prix Médicis Étranger
National Book Award for Fiction
(1960)
For Work
:
Goodbye, Columbus
Point in Time
: 1960
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
(1994)
For Work
:
Operation Shylock
Point in Time
: 1994
National Book Award for Fiction
(1995)
For Work
:
Sabbath's Theater
Point in Time
: 1995
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(1998)
For Work
:
American Pastoral
Point in Time
: 1998
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
(2001)
For Work
:
The Human Stain
Point in Time
: 2001
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
(2001)
Point in Time
: 2001
Prix Médicis Étranger
(2002)
For Work
:
The Human Stain
Point in Time
: 2002
Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
(2005)
For Work
:
The Plot Against America
Point in Time
: 2005
PEN/Nabokov Award
(2006)
Point in Time
: 2006
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
(2007)
For Work
:
Everyman
Point in Time
: 2007
International Booker Prize
(2011)
Point in Time
: 2011
Emerson-Thoreau Medal
(2013)
Point in Time
: 2013
Library of Congress Living Legend
(April 2000 - )
Start Time
: April 2000
Commander of the Legion of Honour
New Jersey Hall of Fame
(2010)
Point in Time
: 2010
Honorary Doctorate From Brown University
(5/28/2001)
Point in Time
: 5/28/2001
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
(2012)
Point in Time
: 2012
Sidewise Award for Alternate History
(2004)
For Work
:
The Plot Against America
Point in Time
: 2004
National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
(1991)
For Work
:
Patrimony: A True Story
Point in Time
: 1991
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
(1987)
For Work
:
The Counterlife
Point in Time
: 1987
National Book Award
(2002)
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Point in Time
: 2002

Spouse

Claire Bloom
(1990 - 1994)
End Cause
:
Divorce
Start Time
: 1990
End Time
: 1994

Occupation

Novelist
Screenwriter
Essayist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Poet

Employer

Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Hunter College
University of Iowa

Educated At

Rutgers University
(1951 - 1952)
Object Named As
:Newark Branch of Rutgers
Start Time
: 1951
End Time
: 1952
Weequahic High School
University of Chicago
( - 1955)
Academic Major
:
English Literature
Academic Degree
:
Master of Arts
End Time
: 1955
Bucknell University
(1952 - 1954)
Academic Major
:
English Literature
Academic Degree
:
Bachelor's Degree
Start Time
: 1952
End Time
: 1954
University of Chicago
(1956 - )
Start Time
: 1956
Unnamed
: 1 academic term

Member Of

American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Phi Beta Kappa Society

Given Name

Philip
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Birth Name

Philip Milton Roth

Religion or Worldview

Judaism
Atheism

Residence

Newark
Warren

Influenced By

30 items
John Updike
Primo Levi
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Charlotte Brontë
Henry James
Sherwood Anderson
Henry Miller
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Albert Camus
Bernard Malamud
Ralph Ellison
Aharon Appelfeld
Nikolai Gogol
Anne Frank
Gustave Flaubert
Ivan Klíma
Alessandro Piperno
Leo Tolstoy
Günter Grass
Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
James Joyce
J. D. Salinger
Joseph Conrad
Emily Brontë
Franz Kafka
Milan Kundera
Saul Bellow
Raoul Schrott
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nominated For

19 items
National Book Award for Fiction
(1960)
For Work
:
Goodbye, Columbus
Point in Time
: 1960
National Book Award for Fiction
(1975)
For Work
:
My Life As a Man
Point in Time
: 1975
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(1980)
For Work
:
The Ghost Writer
Point in Time
: 1980
National Book Award for Fiction
(1984)
For Work
:
The Anatomy Lesson
Point in Time
: 1984
National Book Award for Fiction
(1987)
For Work
:
The Counterlife
Point in Time
: 1987
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(1994)
For Work
:
Operation Shylock
Point in Time
: 1994
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
(1994)
For Work
:
Operation Shylock
Point in Time
: 1994
National Book Award for Fiction
(1995)
For Work
:
Sabbath's Theater
Point in Time
: 1995
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(1996)
For Work
:
Sabbath's Theater
Point in Time
: 1996
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
(1998)
Point in Time
: 1998
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(1998)
For Work
:
American Pastoral
Point in Time
: 1998
Dublin Literary Award
(2000)
For Work
:
I Married a Communist
Point in Time
: 2000
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
(2001)
For Work
:
The Human Stain
Point in Time
: 2001
International Booker Prize
(2005)
Point in Time
: 2005
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
(2005)
For Work
:
The Plot Against America
Point in Time
: 2005
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
(2006)
Point in Time
: 2006
International Booker Prize
(2007)
Point in Time
: 2007
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
(2007)
For Work
:
Everyman
Point in Time
: 2007
Grand Prix De L'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel
(2007)
For Work
:
The Plot Against America
Point in Time
: 2007

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Family Name

Roth

Date of Death

5/22/2018

Place of Death

Manhattan

Native Language

English

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Place of Burial

Bard College Cemetery

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

American English
English

Name in Native Language

Philip Roth

Described by Source

Obálky Knih
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:Roth, Philip, 1933-2018
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Records of Persons of Interest

Start of Work Period

1950

List of Works

Philip Roth Bibliography

Ethnic Group

American Jews
Reason for Deprecated Rank
:
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Writing Language

English

Field of Work

Belletristic Literature
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