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Pearson's new book ''My Grandfather's Knife'' will be published by [[HarperCollins]] and [[The History Press]], with a Spanish translation by [[Planeta Group|Planeta]] in April 2022. The book tells the stories of Second World War witnesses through everyday objects they owned. <ref>"The History Press lands 'enthralling account' of hidden war stories from Pearson" in The Bookseller [https://www.thebookseller.com/news/history-press-lands-enthralling-account-hidden-war-stories-pearson-1286098/ Retrieved 14 November 2021]</ref>
Pearson's new book ''My Grandfather's Knife'' will be published by [[HarperCollins]] and [[The History Press]], with a Spanish translation by [[Planeta Group|Planeta]] in April 2022. The book tells the stories of Second World War witnesses through everyday objects they owned. <ref>"The History Press lands 'enthralling account' of hidden war stories from Pearson" in The Bookseller [https://www.thebookseller.com/news/history-press-lands-enthralling-account-hidden-war-stories-pearson-1286098/ Retrieved 14 November 2021]</ref>


His work has appeared in [[Newsweek]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Joseph |title=German Theater Director Thomas Ostermeier Takes on the Far-Right |url=https://www.newsweek.com/german-theater-thomas-ostermeier-takes-far-right-527910 |website=Newsweek |publisher=2018 Newsweek LLC |accessdate=27 September 2018 |date=12 April 2016}}</ref> The [[New England Review]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Joseph |title=This Is Also Tangier |url=http://www.nereview.com/2018/03/14/this-is-also-tangier/ |website=New England Review |publisher=NER |accessdate=27 September 2018}}</ref><ref>"Three German Cities", New England Review [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/632106/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> the [[BBC]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Joseph |title=What the German Language reveals about attitudes to work |url=http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171022-what-the-german-language-reveals-about-attitudes-to-work/ |website=BBC Capital |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 September 2018 |date=23 October 2017}}</ref> [[AGNI]],<ref>AGNI authors [http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/J/Joseph-Pearson.html/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> [[Monocle Magazine]],<ref>"Habsburg Hipsters and the Future of Europe", Monocle Forecast (2016) [https://monocle.com/magazine/the-forecast/2016/thinking-ahead/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> [[Prism International]]<ref>Prism International Portraits of prize winners [https://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/18/2020-jacob-zilber-prize-for-short-fiction-the-winners/ Retrieved 2 Feb 2021]</ref> and many other publications. His non-fiction has been translated into German, French, Arabic, Mandarin and other languages.<ref>The Needle, About the Author [http://needleberlin.com/about-the-editor/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref>
His work has appeared in [[Newsweek]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Joseph |title=German Theater Director Thomas Ostermeier Takes on the Far-Right |url=https://www.newsweek.com/german-theater-thomas-ostermeier-takes-far-right-527910 |website=Newsweek |publisher=2018 Newsweek LLC |accessdate=27 September 2018 |date=12 April 2016}}</ref> The [[New England Review]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Joseph |title=This Is Also Tangier |url=http://www.nereview.com/2018/03/14/this-is-also-tangier/ |website=New England Review |publisher=NER |accessdate=27 September 2018}}</ref><ref>"Three German Cities", New England Review [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/632106/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> the [[BBC]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Joseph |title=What the German Language reveals about attitudes to work |url=http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171022-what-the-german-language-reveals-about-attitudes-to-work/ |website=BBC Capital |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 September 2018 |date=23 October 2017}}</ref> AGNI,<ref>AGNI authors [http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/J/Joseph-Pearson.html/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> [[Monocle Magazine]],<ref>"Habsburg Hipsters and the Future of Europe", Monocle Forecast (2016) [https://monocle.com/magazine/the-forecast/2016/thinking-ahead/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> [[Prism International]]<ref>Prism International Portraits of prize winners [https://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/18/2020-jacob-zilber-prize-for-short-fiction-the-winners/ Retrieved 2 Feb 2021]</ref> and many other publications. His non-fiction has been translated into German, French, Arabic, Mandarin and other languages.<ref>The Needle, About the Author [http://needleberlin.com/about-the-editor/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref>


Pearson is based in Berlin, Germany, where he is the in-house essayist of the [[Schaubühne]] Theatre<ref>Pearson's Preview, Schaubühne Theatre [https://www.schaubuehne.de/en/blog/pearsons-preview.html/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> and the editor of ''The Needle'',<ref>The Needle Berlin: About the Editor [http://needleberlin.com/about-the-editor/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> one of Berlin's most popular blogs.<ref>Berlin's Best Blogs [http://www.iheartberlin.de/2017/07/11/the-10-best-berlin-blogs-and-more/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> He is a founding member of the artist collective, 'AGOSTO'.<ref>AGOSTO / artist collective website [https://www.agostocollective.org Retrieved 12 January 2021]</ref>
Pearson is based in Berlin, Germany, where he is the in-house essayist of the [[Schaubühne]] Theatre<ref>Pearson's Preview, Schaubühne Theatre [https://www.schaubuehne.de/en/blog/pearsons-preview.html/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> and the editor of ''The Needle'',<ref>The Needle Berlin: About the Editor [http://needleberlin.com/about-the-editor/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> one of Berlin's most popular blogs.<ref>Berlin's Best Blogs [http://www.iheartberlin.de/2017/07/11/the-10-best-berlin-blogs-and-more/ Retrieved 5 July 2018]</ref> He is a founding member of the artist collective, 'AGOSTO'.<ref>AGOSTO / artist collective website [https://www.agostocollective.org Retrieved 12 January 2021]</ref>

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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

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

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 will be published by HarperCollins and The History Press, with a Spanish translation by Planeta in April 2022. The book tells the stories of Second World War witnesses through everyday objects they owned. [13]

His work has appeared in Newsweek,[14] The New England Review,[15][16] the BBC,[17] AGNI,[18] Monocle Magazine,[19] Prism International[20] and many other publications. His non-fiction has been translated into German, French, Arabic, Mandarin and other languages.[21]

Pearson is based in Berlin, Germany, where he is the in-house essayist of the Schaubühne Theatre[22] and the editor of The Needle,[23] one of Berlin's most popular blogs.[24] He is a founding member of the artist collective, 'AGOSTO'.[25]

Awards

In 2020, he was awarded a Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction (First Runner-up), for his story "An Iconostasis".[26] The story was nominated in 2020 for the Pushcart Prize.[27]

References

  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. 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. ^ Pearson, Joseph (12 April 2016). "German Theater Director Thomas Ostermeier Takes on the Far-Right". Newsweek. 2018 Newsweek LLC. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  15. ^ Pearson, Joseph. "This Is Also Tangier". New England Review. NER. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  16. ^ "Three German Cities", New England Review Retrieved 5 July 2018
  17. ^ Pearson, Joseph (23 October 2017). "What the German Language reveals about attitudes to work". BBC Capital. BBC. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  18. ^ AGNI authors Retrieved 5 July 2018
  19. ^ "Habsburg Hipsters and the Future of Europe", Monocle Forecast (2016) Retrieved 5 July 2018
  20. ^ Prism International Portraits of prize winners Retrieved 2 Feb 2021
  21. ^ The Needle, About the Author Retrieved 5 July 2018
  22. ^ Pearson's Preview, Schaubühne Theatre Retrieved 5 July 2018
  23. ^ The Needle Berlin: About the Editor Retrieved 5 July 2018
  24. ^ Berlin's Best Blogs Retrieved 5 July 2018
  25. ^ AGOSTO / artist collective website Retrieved 12 January 2021
  26. ^ PRISM International literary magazine webpage Retrieved 19 April 2020
  27. ^ Author's webpage Retrieved 7 January 2021
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