Joseph Pearson (writer)

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

Joseph Pearson
BornEdmonton, Canada
NationalityCanadian / Italian

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 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

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
  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
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