Joseph Pearson (writer)

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Joseph Pearson
BornEdmonton, Canada
NationalityCanadian / Italian

Joseph Sanders Pearson (born 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian essayist, cultural historian, and journalist.

Life[edit]

Between 1997 and 2001, Pearson received his doctorate in Modern History at the University of Cambridge.[1] [2] Pearson has taught in the humanities at Columbia University,[3] New York University,[4] the Berlin University of the Arts,[5] and the Barenboim–Said Academy, a peace project headed by conductor Daniel Barenboim.[6] He is the nephew of children's novelist Kit Pearson.[7]

Career[edit]

His history and portrait of the German capital, Berlin, was published by Reaktion Press[8] and University of Chicago Press[9] in 2017. The Independent called Berlin "the last word in explaining not only Berlin’s incredible history, but also its present day cultural situation"[10] and Bloomberg reported that the book "masterfully offers a close reading of the metropolis in all its brutal immediacy".[11] The book was also positively reviewed in The German Studies Review.[12]

Pearson's new book My Grandfather's Knife was published by HarperCollins and The History Press in April 2022, with a Spanish translation by Planeta in October 2022. The book tells the stories of Second World War witnesses through everyday objects they owned.[13] The Spectator reported the book "sheds intriguing new light" on the period’s history,[14] while the book received positive reviews in the Literary Review of Canada[15] and elsewhere, with Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed, calling the book, "literary non-fiction at its best".[16] A chapter from the book, regarding Nazi plunder of string instruments obtained by the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, appeared in German in the literary review Lettre International.[17]

Pearson's work has appeared in Newsweek,[18] The New England Review,[19][20] the BBC,[21] AGNI,[22] Monocle Magazine,[23] Prism International[24] and many other publications. His non-fiction has been translated into German, French, Arabic, Mandarin and other languages.[25]

Pearson is based in Berlin, Germany, where he is the in-house essayist of the Schaubühne Theatre[26] and the editor of The Needle,[27] one of Berlin's most popular blogs.[28] He is a founding member of the artist collective, 'AGOSTO'.[29]

Awards[edit]

In 2020, he was awarded a Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction (First Runner-up), for his story "An Iconostasis".[30] The story was nominated in 2020 for the Pushcart Prize.[31]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Brendan Simms (4 July 2002). Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (ref. 216). Penguin Books Limited. p. 543. ISBN 978-0-14-193767-0.
  2. ^ Pearson, Joseph Sanders. (17 July 2001). British press reactions to the onset of war in ex-Yugoslavia (PhD). Faculty of History: University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Slow Travel Author Biography Retrieved 5 July 2018
  4. ^ Joseph Pearson lectures at NYU Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Your Berlin Story – An Alternative Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop". Berlin University of the Arts. The Universität der Künste Berlin. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Faculty Profile Barenboim-Said Academy". Barenboim-Said Academy. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  7. ^ Pearson, Kit (18 September 2007). Kit Pearson's first novel The Daring Game is dedicated to her nephew and niece. ISBN 978-0-14-318634-2. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Berlin by Joseph Pearson from Reaktion Books". Reaktion Books. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Berlin". University of Chicago Press. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  10. ^ Allen, Tony (25 September 2017). "8 best Berlin guide books". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Berlin, Cityscopes. Pearson, Joseph (Reaktion Books, 2017)". 123Library. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  12. ^ Mirko M. Hall, "Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by Paul Hockenos, and: Cityscopes: Berlin by Joseph Pearson", vol. 41, no. 2 (2018), German Studies Review Retrieved 21 November 2018
  13. ^ "The History Press lands 'enthralling account' of hidden war stories from Pearson" in The Bookseller Retrieved 14 November 2021
  14. ^ Matthew Reisz, "The History of Nazism in Small Objects" in The Spectator Retrieved 8 May 2023
  15. ^ Marlo Alexandra Burks, "Reverberations: The Language of Silent Things" in Literary Review of Canada Retrieved 8 May 2023
  16. ^ Norman Ohler on My Grandfather's Knife, HarperCollins book webpage Retrieved 8 May 2023
  17. ^ Joseph Pearson, "Ein Saiteninstrument" in Lettre International 138, Autumn 2022 Retrieved 8 May 2023
  18. ^ Pearson, Joseph (12 April 2016). "German Theater Director Thomas Ostermeier Takes on the Far-Right". Newsweek. 2018 Newsweek LLC. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  19. ^ Pearson, Joseph. "This Is Also Tangier". New England Review. NER. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  20. ^ "Three German Cities", New England Review Retrieved 5 July 2018
  21. ^ Pearson, Joseph (23 October 2017). "What the German Language reveals about attitudes to work". BBC Capital. BBC. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  22. ^ AGNI authors Retrieved 5 July 2018
  23. ^ "Habsburg Hipsters and the Future of Europe", Monocle Forecast (2016) Retrieved 5 July 2018
  24. ^ Prism International Portraits of prize winners Retrieved 2 Feb 2021
  25. ^ The Needle, About the Author Retrieved 5 July 2018
  26. ^ Pearson's Preview, Schaubühne Theatre Retrieved 5 July 2018 Archived 5 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  27. ^ The Needle Berlin: About the Editor Retrieved 5 July 2018
  28. ^ Berlin's Best Blogs Retrieved 5 July 2018
  29. ^ AGOSTO / artist collective website Retrieved 12 January 2021
  30. ^ PRISM International literary magazine webpage Retrieved 19 April 2020
  31. ^ Author's webpage Retrieved 7 January 2021

External links[edit]

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