Linked Data Explorer

"Autobiografisch getint relaas van het leven van een jongen van Iers-Duitse afkomst in de jaren vijftig en zestig."
"The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own."@en
"Acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has written his own story - a deeply moving memoir about a whole family's homesickness for a country they can call their own."@en
"Hugo Hamilton lebt in einem Land, das auf keiner Landkarte verzeichnet ist. Der kleine Junge wurde in Irland geboren und wächst in Dublin auf, aber er geht jeden Abend in Deutschland zu Bett und steht morgens in Deutschland wieder auf. Seine Familie spricht kein Englisch, dafür Deutsch und Gälisch, was niemand um sie herum versteht. Denn Hugo und seine Geschwister sind 'breac', gescheckt: Als Sohn einer deutschen Mutter und eines irischen Vaters wächst Hugo Hamilton in einer Welt voller Geheimnisse, Widersprüche und absurder Komik auf. Hugo Hamilton wurde 1953 als Sohn eines irischen Vaters und einer deutschen Mutter in Dublin geboren. Er arbeitete zunächst als Journalist, bevor er Kurzgeschichten und Romane veröffentlichte. Als DAAD-Stipendiat lebte und arbeitete er 2001/2002 ein Jahr lang in Berlin. Mit seinen Erinnerungsbänden 'Gescheckte Menschen' (dt. 2004) und 'Der Matrose im Schrank' (dt. 2006) erregte er auch in Deutschland Aufsehen . 2007 erschien sein Reisetagebuch auf den Spuren Heinrich Bölls 'Die redselige Insel' und zuletzt der Roman 'Der irische Freund' (dt. 2011). 2004 erhielt er in Paris den 'Femina-Preis' für ausländische Literatur. Hugo Hamilton lebt mit seiner Familie in Dublin."
""In one of the finest memoirs to have emerged from Ireland in many years, the acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton brings alive his German-Irish childhood in 1950s Dublin. Between his father's strict Irish nationalism and the softly spoken stories of his mother's German past, this little boy tells the tale of a whole family's homesickness for a country, and a language, they can call their own."
"Hugo Hamilton's best-selling memoir, The Speckled People, has been hailed as an instant classic and has been translated into twenty languages. The Gate Theatre is delighted to present this world premiere of the author's adaptation of this extraordinary work. The Speckled People tells the profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950's Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and often a very funny family drama. As a young boy, Hamilton struggled with what it means to be speckled, half and half...Irish on top and German below. Caught between his fiercely nationalistic father and his warm-hearted German mother, Hugo must free himself from his parents' secrets before he can find a place where he belongs."
""As a young boy, growing up in Dublin, Hugo Hamilton struggles with the question of what it means to be speckled. The speckled people are, in his father's words, 'the new Irish, partly from Ireland, partly from somewhere else' ... Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare"--Jacket."@en
""As a young boy, growing up in Dublin, Hugo Hamilton struggles with the question of what it means to be speckled. The speckled people are, in his father's words, 'the new Irish, partly from Ireland, partly from somewhere else' ... Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare"--Jacket."
"'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages ' It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural entanglements, he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation, but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents wardrobe. In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland in many years, the acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story ' a deeply moving memoir about a whole family's homesickness for a country they can call their own."
"Acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has written his own story - a deeply moving memoir about a whole family's homesickness for a country they can call their own. Originally published: 2003."@en
"Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times very funny family drama of homesickness, €control€and identity. As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it means to be speckled, "half and half ... Irish on top and German below.". An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifti."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

"Tekstuitgave"
"Electronic books"
"Electronic books"@en
"Autobiographie 1953-1965"@en
"Autobiographie 1953-1965"
"Online-Publikation"
"CD"
"Drama"
"Erzählende Literatur"
"Erlebnisbericht"
"Biography"@en
"Biography"

name

http://schema.org/name

"Sproetenkoppen : roman"
"El perro que ladraba a las olas"@es
"Hjemve : erindringsroman"@da
"Gescheckte Menschen Roman"
"Gescheckte Menschen Literatur, Lesung"
"The Speckled People"
"The Speckled People"@en
"Gescheckte Menschen"
"The speckled people"@en
"The speckled people"
"Il cane che abbaiava alle onde"@it
"Il cane che abbaiava alle onde"

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample