Malte Herwig

Malte Herwig (born 2 October 1972) is a German-born author, journalist, and literary critic. His articles have appeared widely in U.S., British and German publications, including The New York Times, The Observer, Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He studied German Literature, History and Politics at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Mainz, and is a former Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 2008, Herwig was the first to publish some of Vladimir Nabokov's original index cards from the author's last unfinished novel The Original of Laura. In the accompanying article, Herwig concluded that "Laura", although fragmentary, was "vintage Nabokov".^[1] He is the author of several books, among them a biography of Austrian poet Peter Handke.

Bibliography

• Meister der Dämmerung. Peter Handke: Eine Biographie, München: DVA, 2010, ISBN 9783421044495
• Eliten in einer egalitären Welt, Berlin: wjs-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 9783937989112
• Bildungsbürger auf Abwegen. Naturwissenschaft im Werk Thomas Manns, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2004, ISBN 9783465033523

References

1. ^ Malte Herwig, "Vladimir Nabokov: Sein letztes Spiel", Die Zeit, 14 August 2008.

External links

• Official Blog
• In North Korea, Communism goes Cannes, New York Times, 21.11.2008
• Still Life: The Jailhouse Jackson Pollock. After nearly two decades in solitary confinement, convicted murderer Donny Johnson has started painting, 2007
• Google's Total Library. Putting The World's Books On The Web, 2007
• Much Ado About Tom Cruise, 2007
• "They Take The Mind, and What Emerges is Just Tapioca Pudding". Interview with thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, 2006
• 'Hitler? He was good in parts'. Malte Herwig interviews an unrepentant David Irving in his Viennese prison cell, 2006
• Sex for Sexagenarians. Movies Target Frisky Seniors

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