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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Hilton Als</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Hilton Als</b> (* <a href="1960" title="1960">1960</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>) ist ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Schriftsteller" title="Schriftsteller">Schriftsteller</a> und <a href="Theaterkritik" title="Theaterkritik">Theaterkritiker</a>.
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<p>Als wuchs in <a href="Brownsville_(New_York_City)" title="Brownsville (New York City)">Brownsville</a>, <a href="Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> auf. Er studierte an der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> und ist Autor mehrerer Werke. Er ist Theaterkritiker für das US-amerikanische Magazin <a href="The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</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> Als gewann 2017 den <a href="Pulitzer-Preis/Kritik" title="Pulitzer-Preis/Kritik">Pulitzer-Preis</a> für seine „kühnen und originellen Kritiken“ als Literaturkritiker des <i>New Yorker</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zudem lehrte er als Hochschullehrer am <a href="Smith_College" title="Smith College">Smith College</a>, am <a href="Wellesley_College" title="Wellesley College">Wellesley College</a>, an der <a href="Wesleyan_University" title="Wesleyan University">Wesleyan University</a> und an der <a href="Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>. In Manhattan veranstaltet und fördert Als verschiedene Kunstausstellungen, darüber hinaus ist er Mitglied der renommierten <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Werke_(Auswahl)"><span id="Werke_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Werke (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li>1996: <i>The Women</i>, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux</li>
<li>2013: <i>White girls</i>, San Francisco: McSweeney’s</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Auszeichnungen_und_Preise_(Auswahl)"><span id="Auszeichnungen_und_Preise_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Auszeichnungen und Preise (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li>2000: <a href="Guggenheim-Stipendium" title="Guggenheim-Stipendium">Guggenheim-Stipendium</a> für <a href="Kreatives_Schreiben" title="Kreatives Schreiben">Kreatives Schreiben</a></li>
<li>2002–03: <i>George Jean Nathan Award</i> für <i>Dramatic Criticism</i></li>
<li>2004: <a href="Berlin_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Berlin Prize">Berlin Prize</a> der <a href="American_Academy_in_Berlin" title="American Academy in Berlin">American Academy in Berlin</a></li>
<li>2014: <a href="Lambda_Literary_Award" title="Lambda Literary Award">Lambda Literary Award</a> (LGBT Nonfiction) für <i>White Girls</i></li>
<li>2016: <a href="Windham%E2%80%93Campbell_Literature_Prize" title="Windham–Campbell Literature Prize">Windham–Campbell Literature Prize</a></li>
<li>2017: <a href="Pulitzer-Preis" title="Pulitzer-Preis">Pulitzer-Preis</a> für <a href="Pulitzer-Preis/Kritik" title="Pulitzer-Preis/Kritik">Literaturkritik</a></li>
<li>2018: Ehrendoktor der <a href="The_New_School" title="The New School">The New School</a> in New York City</li>
<li>2021: Mitglied der <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hiltonals.com/">Offizielle Website von Hilton Als</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/hilton-als">Pulitzer.org: Hilton Als</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/06/15/pulitzer-prize-winning-critic-hilton-als-named-presidential-visiting-scholar">Princeton University: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als named Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton, 15. Juni 2020</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/hilton-als">New Yorker: Hilton Als</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/hilton-als">Columbia University: Hilton Als</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/my-mothers-dreams-for-her-son-and-all-black-children">The New Yorker: My Mother’s Dreams for Her Son, and All Black Children</a>, 29. Juni 2020</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/hilton-als"><i>The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 15. August 2023</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AHilton+Als&rft.title=The+2017+Pulitzer+Prize+Winner+in+Criticism&rft.description=The+2017+Pulitzer+Prize+Winner+in+Criticism&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pulitzer.org%2Fwinners%2Fhilton-als&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2017/alice-neel-uptown-curated-hilton-als"><i>Alice Neel, Uptown curated by Hilton Als.</i></a> David Zwirner,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 31. August 2025</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AHilton+Als&rft.title=Alice+Neel%2C+Uptown+curated+by+Hilton+Als&rft.description=Alice+Neel%2C+Uptown+curated+by+Hilton+Als&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidzwirner.com%2Fexhibitions%2F2017%2Falice-neel-uptown-curated-hilton-als&rft.publisher=David+Zwirner&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021"><i>New Members, Elected in 2021.</i></a> In: <i>amacad.org.</i> <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, 21. April 2021,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 4. November 2021</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AHilton+Als&rft.title=New+Members%2C+Elected+in+2021&rft.description=New+Members%2C+Elected+in+2021&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amacad.org%2Fnew-members-2021&rft.publisher=%5B%5BAmerican+Academy+of+Arts+and+Sciences%5D%5D&rft.date=2021-04-21&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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