John Irving
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.
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Sonja
04/10/2024
Prachtig boek.
Anita
21/02/2022
De beeldende omschrijvingen en de humor zijn geweldig. Bet onderwerp, het geloof - vind ik iets minder interessant. Wel mooi om te zien hoe Irving van absurde situaties een prachtig verhaal weet te maken? Humoristisch en ontroerend.
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