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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">David Means</span></h1>
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<p><b>David Means</b> (geboren <a href="17._Oktober" title="17. Oktober">17. Oktober</a> <a href="1961" title="1961">1961</a> in <a href="Kalamazoo" title="Kalamazoo">Kalamazoo</a>) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.
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<p>David Means besuchte die High School in Kalamazoo und studierte Literatur am <a href="College_of_Wooster" title="College of Wooster">College of Wooster</a> (B.A.) und an der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> (MFA). Means arbeitete zeitweise als Dozent am <a href="Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar College</a>. Er lebt heute mit Frau und Zwillingen in <a href="Nyack" title="Nyack">Nyack</a> bei New York.
</p><p>Seine Kurzgeschichten erschienen unter anderem in <a href="Esquire" title="Esquire">Esquire</a>, <a href="The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a> und <a href="Harper%E2%80%99s_Magazine" title="Harper’s Magazine">Harper’s</a>. Er veröffentlichte mehrere Sammelbände. Sein erster Roman <i>Hystopia</i> stand 2016 auf der Longlist des <a href="Man_Booker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Man Booker Prize">Man Booker Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>2000: <a href="Los_Angeles_Times_Book_Prize" title="Los Angeles Times Book Prize">Los Angeles Times Book Prize</a> (Fiction) für <i>Assorted Fire Events: Stories</i></li></ul>
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<ul><li><i>A Quick Kiss of Redemption & Other Stories</i>. New York : Morrow, 1991, ISBN 0-688-09459-7</li>
<li><i>Assorted Fire Events</i>. Fourth Estate, 2000, ISBN 1-893956-05-9
<ul><li><i>Coitus : Stories</i>. Übersetzung <a href="Dirk_van_Gunsteren" title="Dirk van Gunsteren">Dirk van Gunsteren</a>. Köln : DuMont, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8321-7869-7</li></ul></li>
<li><i>The Secret Goldfish</i>. 2004, ISBN 0-00-716489-0
<ul><li><i>Das Nest</i>. Übersetzung Dirk van Gunsteren. Köln : DuMont, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8321-7963-2</li></ul></li>
<li><i>The Spot : stories</i>. 2010, ISBN 978-0-86547-912-8</li>
<li><i>Hystopia : a novel</i>. Rearsby, Leicester : W.F. Howes, 2016, ISBN 978-0865479135</li>
<li><i>Instructions for a Funeral</i>. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, ISBN 978-0-374-27981-3</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=130307548">Literatur von und über David Means</a> im Katalog der <a href="Deutsche_Nationalbibliothek" title="Deutsche Nationalbibliothek">Deutschen Nationalbibliothek</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/david-means.html">Kurzbiografie und Rezensionen zu Werken von David Means</a> bei <i><a href="Perlentaucher" title="Perlentaucher">Perlentaucher</a></i></li>
<li>Ian Crouch: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-exchange-david-means"><i>The Exchange: David Means</i></a>, The New Yorker, 19. Juli 2010</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://us.macmillan.com/author/davidmeans/"><i>David Means</i></a>, bei Macmillan</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/dameans/"><i>David Means</i></a>, bei Vassar College</li></ul>
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