Ray Bradbury

amerikansk manusforfatter og skribent

Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920–2012)[26] var en amerikansk fantasi-, grøsser- og science fiction-forfatter, best kjent for The Martian Chronicles og sin dystopiske roman Fahrenheit 451.

Ray Bradbury
FødtRaymond Douglas Bradbury
22. aug. 1920[1][2][3][4]Rediger på Wikidata
Waukegan[5][6][7]
Død5. juni 2012[2][8][9][3]Rediger på Wikidata (91 år)
Los Angeles[1]
BeskjeftigelseSkribent,[10] manusforfatter,[10] lyriker,[10] prosaforfatter, romanforfatter, science fiction-forfatter, dramatiker[10]
Akademisk gradÆresdoktor (2003) (deles ut av: Woodbury University)
æresdoktor (2005) (deles ut av: National University of Ireland, Galway)
æresdoktor (2009) (deles ut av: Columbia College Chicago)
Utdannet vedLos Angeles High School (–1938)
EktefelleMarguerite Bradbury (19472003)
FarLeonard Spaulding Bradbury, Sr.[11]
BarnBettina F. Bradbury
NasjonalitetUSA[12]
GravlagtWestwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery[13]
SpråkEngelsk[14][15]
Utmerkelser
24 oppføringer
Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (1984) (for: Fahrenheit 451)[16]
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (1977)[17]
Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (1988) (sammen med: Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes)[18]
First Fandom Hall of Fame award (1996)[19]
Helmerich Award (1994)[20]
Pulitzer-prisens særskilte hederbevisninger og utmerkelser (2007) (sammen med: John Coltrane)[21]
Ross Macdonald Literary Award (2002)
Valentine Davies Award (1974) (sammen med: Philip Dunne)[22]
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2001)[23]
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (1989)
Inkpot Award (1974)
Kommandør av Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2007)
National Medal of Arts (2004)
Emmy-prisen (1994) (for: The Halloween Tree)
Sir Arthur Clarke Award (2007)
California Library Hall of Fame[24]
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (1999)
Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1944) (for: R Is for Rocket)
Hugo-prisen for beste roman (1954) (for: Fahrenheit 451)
Geffen Award
Stjerne på Hollywood Walk of Fame
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[25]
Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel (2004) (for: Fahrenheit 451)
The George Pal Memorial Award
PseudonymElliott, William
SjangerScience fiction, fantasy, skrekklitteratur, samfunns-science fiction
Debuterte1938
Aktive år19382012
Notable verkFahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles, I Sing the Body Electric
Påvirket avEdgar Rice Burroughs, Karel Čapek, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, George Bernard Shaw, Jevgenij Zamjatin, Sherwood Anderson, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Leigh Brackett, Thomas Wolfe, Jack Williamson, George Orwell, Jules Verne, John Steinbeck, Herbert George Wells, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Marin, Geoffroy
Nettstedhttps://raybradbury.com
IMDbIMDb
Signatur
Ray Bradburys signatur

Hans mor kom fra Dalarna i Sverige, og han flyttet flere ganger som barn. Siden 1934 bodde han i Los Angeles. Han fikk en stjerne på Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Bibliografi

Romaner

  • Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
  • Dandelion Wine (1953)
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
  • The Halloween Tree (1972)
  • Death Is a Lonely Business (1985)
  • A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)
  • Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
  • Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines (1998)
  • From the Dust Returned (2001)
  • Let's All Kill Constance (2003)
  • It Came From Outer Space (2003)

Novellesamlinger

  • Dark Carnival (1947)
  • The Martian Chronicles (Krøniker fra Mars) (1950)
  • All Summer in a day (1950)
  • The Illustrated Man (1951)
  • The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
  • The October Country (1955)
  • A Medicine for Melancholy (1959)
  • R is for Rocket (1960)
  • I Sing The Body Electric! (1969)
  • The Toynbee Convector (1988)
  • Driving Blind (1998)
  • One More for the Road (2002)
  • Bradbury Stories (2003)
  • The Veldt (2006)

Referanser

Eksterne lenker

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