Edmund de Waal – författare

From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber EyesAs you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well.The Camondos lived just a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de Waal's family, they were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of anti-Semitism.Count Moïse de Camondo created a spectacular house filled with art for his son to inherit. Over a century later, de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and, in a haunting series of letters addressed to Camondo, he tells us what happened next.'Illuminating... A wonderful tribute to a family and to an idea' Guardian'Letters to Camondo immerses you in another age... Dazzling' Financial Times

**WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects.264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined.From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.'You have in your hands a masterpiece' Sunday Times'The most brilliant book I've read for years... A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human' Daily Telegraph**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY*

The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white.Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired, made rich or heartsick by it, and the many whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times.In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain, Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material, the 'white gold' he has worked with for decades.'This is a haunting book, a book that amasses itself piece by piece, gaining in weight.' Olivia Laing, New Statesman'A mighty achievement' Guardian

**WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects.264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined.From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.'You have in your hands a masterpiece' Sunday Times'The most brilliant book I've read for years... A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human' Daily Telegraph**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY*

The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white.Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired, made rich or heartsick by it, and the many whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times.In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain, Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material, the 'white gold' he has worked with for decades.'This is a haunting book, a book that amasses itself piece by piece, gaining in weight.' Olivia Laing, New Statesman'A mighty achievement' Guardian

From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber EyesAs you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well.The Camondos lived just a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de Waal's family, they were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of anti-Semitism.Count Moïse de Camondo created a spectacular house filled with art for his son to inherit. Over a century later, de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and, in a haunting series of letters addressed to Camondo, he tells us what happened next.'Illuminating... A wonderful tribute to a family and to an idea' Guardian'Letters to Camondo immerses you in another age... Dazzling' Financial Times

Inspiration for a creative life from the author of the international bestselling THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES and LETTERS TO CAMONDO'I believe you can live in a book of poems'A book about finding a creative voice and becoming an artist via a startling rediscovery in Edmund de Waal's family archives - letters between his grandmother and the charismatic poet Rainer Maria Rilke** With letters translated from the German by prizewinning translator, Karen Leeder **This is a story about how to begin. In 1921, Elisabeth Ephrussi writes a letter to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She too is a poet, or an aspiring one - a young law student in Vienna just beginning her creative life. To her surprise, Rilke writes back with advice. A five-year correspondence follows, an exchange of lyrical and exhortatory letters alongside books, translations, poems in manuscript. They never meet. Fifty years later, Elisabeth's grandson, Edmund de Waal, wants to be a poet and a potter. He sends her his own poetry, and she responds with guidance and Rilke's Duino Elegies. How to Begin follows Edmund's journey as an artist. This is a book about failure, about starting again, about apprenticeship and asking for and then disregarding advice, about working out ways to keep going when you don't know how. It is a moving, intergenerational story about the traces of memory within a family, and a deeply personal reflection on how we learn resilience with the support of others. It is for any reader starting out, seeking the permission to begin.

An extraordinary survey of ceramics spanning over thirty thousand years, curated by the famed artist and writer Edmund de Waal The history of ceramics is ingrained in the history of humankind. Among the earliest crafts to develop, ceramic artifacts date back to the late Paleolithic period, revealing the prominence of this medium in our everyday lives and those of our predecessors. The Pot Book is a stunning survey of over 300 ceramic objects created across eras and around the world. Curated by artist and writer Edmund de Waal, the diverse selection includes jugs, vases, plates, beakers, amphorae, and more.Entries range from the simple to the sublime: a hand-painted jug by an unnamed Chinese artisan that dates back to the third millennium BC; a delicate porcelain plate from eighteenth-century Copenhagen; a playful vase by the influential Italian designer Ettore Sottsass; contemporary artworks by Phoebe Collings-James, Theaster Gates, Simone Leigh, and Grayson Perry ; and other fascinating objects.Each entry is represented with a dedicated full page featuring a large-scale image accompanied by key details and insightful, engaging text. Each entry is sequenced in alphabetical order by the name of the artist/potter, the school, or style, creating a grand tour through the very finest examples of the art form.

An intimate look at Ben Nicholson's everyday inspirationsThroughout his career, Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) transformed everyday homewares into extraordinary experiments in abstract art. Nicholson’s studio was filled with objects that inspired him. From patterned mocha-ware jugs and cut glass goblets to spanners, hammers and chisels, these ordinary personal possessions were a source of almost endless inspiration to the artist. This book brings together for the first time Nicholson’s paintings, reliefs, prints and drawings alongside his rarely seen personal possessions and studio tools. It traces how the artist’s style developed, from his early traditional tabletop still lifes to his later abstract works. Still life was at the heart of Nicholson’s artistic practice. Through these humble items, he began to experiment with form and color. His early works in particular owed inspiration to his father, the painter William Nicholson. The book traces the artistic and personal influences on Nicholson’s evolutionary still life style from the 1920s to the 1970s. It explores his time with Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, as well as his encounters with other Modernist greats, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian. Distributed for Pallant House Gallery

A meditation on migration, exile and memory: de Waal’s poetic installations of porcelain vessels and shards enter into conversation with an iconic Los Angeles cultural center Published with The Huntington.British artist and writer Edmund de Waal (born 1964) is known for installing exquisite porcelain vessels in historic spaces. At The Huntington in Los Angeles, his interventions and artworks explore the movement of ideas, people and objects—what Chinese poet Bei Dao calls the “eight directions of the wind.” In this volume, de Waal writes of the interactive and contemplative spaces he has created in The Huntington’s Chinese and Japanese Gardens and The Huntington Art Gallery. Each installation incorporates text, natural materials and recent works by de Waal that create new perspectives and connections among The Huntington’s collecting areas. An in-depth conversation between de Waal and cultural historian Josh Kun offers context for the artist’s interventions, set against Los Angeles’ mix of cultures. To round out the volume, the pair curated a selection of poems on exile that speaks to global histories of migration.

Nicolai Tangen has been collecting art for over 30 years. Now this entire collection of 5,500 works is to be transferred to Kunstsilo in Kristiansand. The collection focuses on Nordic modernism  (1910 2020). This is the first time this fantastic art collection is being presented to a larger audience. The book contains two books in one cassette. On 850 pages, almost 1,000 works from the collections are presented. Initially with the main emphasis on painting and sculpture, similar books on photography and art on paper will be published later. AKO Art Foundation and Orfeus Publishing by Inger Schjoldager have worked for more than 4 years on this book production, and we are proud to finally be able to present this unique collection. Publisher: Orfeus Publishing

Más de doscientas figuritas de madera y marfil, ninguna de ellas mayor que una caja de cerillas, son el origen de este fascinante libro en el que Edmund de Waal describe el viaje que han hecho a lo largo de los años. Un viaje lleno de aventuras, de guerra, de amor y de pérdida, que resume, en la historia de una familia, la historia de Europa en los siglos XIX y XX. Un texto evocativo y de gran belleza que comienza con una pequeña liebre de ojos de ámbar que se mezcla en un bolsillo con las monedas, y termina, como todo auténtico viaje, con el descubrimiento de uno mismo."El libro de la década… Una obra maravillosa, para ser conservada y leída una y otra vez por tantas generaciones como describe".The Times Literary Supplement"La mejor lección de historia imaginable".The New Yorker"Un libro de enorme categoría, casi insólito en el panorama editorial. Los grandes hechos de la historia transcurren en paralelo a la pequeñez de los objetos coleccionados, y todo está tan bien ligado en este libro prodigioso".Jordi Llovet, El País"Una apasionante, bella y sutil historia de su familia, poblada de banqueros, aristócratas y artistas, con cameos de Proust, Renoir, Strauss, Rilke, la reina de Inglaterra, los Rotschild…".Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia"Un fascinante ensayo. De Waal es un gran escritor, nutrido de una copiosísima varia erudición, cuya riqueza, sin embargo, nunca empece el flujo de una pasión desbordante. La clave de esta venturosa travesía narrativa es haberla urdido a partir de ese pequeño botón del netsuke".Francisco Calvo Serraller, El País

Invitado a exponer sus piezas de cerámica en el museo Nissim de Camondo, Edmund de Waal disfrutó del inesperado privilegio de adentrarse en uno de los palacetes más lujosos de París, antigua propiedad de una influyente familia sefardí. Construido por deseo del filántropo y coleccionista de arte Moïse de Camondo en 1912, el edificio acoge desde entonces una extraordinaria colección de arte francés del siglo XVIII. Sin embargo, como ocurrió a los antepasados de De Waal, los Ephrussi, también los Camondo se convirtieron pronto en blanco del antisemitismo. El infausto destino de este ilustre linaje sobrecogió a De Waal, que comenzó a escribir las cartas reunidas en este libro para rendir homenaje al recuerdo de una familia perdida y «contrarrestar el silencio del desdén». El resultado es una conmovedora y personalísima reflexión sobre el precio de la asimilación, la melancolía, los vínculos familiares, el arte, las vicisitudes de la historia y el valor de la memoria.«Con ecos de Sebald, citas de Proust, brindis a Roth e invocaciones a Benjamin, De Waal se reconfirma como un maestro de ese género con el que los escritores europeos se palpan los traumas del mundo de ayer y demuestra que la mejor literatura es la inesperada e involuntaria, la que escribe un ceramista mientras visita un museo. Es fascinante la habilidad de De Waal para adentrarnos en la oscuridad desde la banalidad del privilegio».Sergio del Molino, Babelia (El País)«De Waal es un gran escritor, nutrido de una copiosísima varia erudición, cuya riqueza, sin embargo, nunca empece el flujo de una pasión desbordante».Francisco Calvo Serraller, El País«A partir de una colección de arte, Edmund de Waal narra la historia de una familia judía parisina en Cartas a Camondo, un maravilloso ejercicio de literatura híbrida».Alberto Gordo, La Lectura«En las páginas de Cartas a Camondo conviven la belleza y el drama, la riqueza y la desolación. De Waal se ocupa de evocar un mundo de maneras proustianas previo a las persecuciones del nazismo: un microcosmos cultivado y cosmopolita. Una historia que podría ser considerada una secuela de La liebre con ojos de ámabar».Luis M. Alonso, La Nueva España«Un libro que recomiendo leer. Está en él la forma de vida de una estirpe social y étnica tremendamente sensible al arte. Y está en él también la manera en que una parte significativa de la gobernanza y la población francesa colaboró activamente en el exterminio de los judíos en su territorio».J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El Correo«Un libro sensibilísimo y bien tramado. Un frágil y bello canto a una familia judía».Biel Mesquida, Abril (El Periódico)«Si los españoles leyéramos a Edmund de Waal en masa tendríamos un país mucho más delicado, elegante y donde los fragmentos de los pasados rotos no se usan como metralla».Sergio del Molino, La Lectura (El Mundo)«Estas Cartas a Camondo, cartas apócrifas, leves, respetuosas, escritas con una emocionada extratemporalidad, buscan eludir –o no– el cerco de la muerte».Manuel Gregorio González, Diario de Sevilla«Un ejemplo de que la escritura puede ser cauce para reconstruir el pasado y rescatarlo, dando un valor enorme a esa conversación con los que ya no están».Fernando Sanmartín, Heraldo de Aragón«En este admirable y compasivo homenaje a una familia sefardí del siglo XX, el autor reúne con maestría a personas y objetos que la historia separó. Un magnífico complemento al fascinante relato de La liebre con ojos de ámbar».Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian

Més de dues-centes figuretes de fusta i d''ivori, cap d''elles més gran que una capsa de llumins, són l''origen d''aquest fascinant llibre en què Edmund de Waal descriu el viatge que han fet al llarg dels anys. Un viatge ple d''aventures, de guerra, d''amor i de pèrdua, que resumeix, en la història d''una família, la història d''Europa dels segles XIX i XX. Un text evocatiu i de gran bellesa que comença amb una petita llebre d''ulls d''ambre que es barreja amb les monedes dins d''una butxaca, i acaba, com tot autèntic viatge, amb el descobriment d''un mateix.

Convidat a exposar les seves peces de ceràmica al museu Nissim de Camondo, Edmund de Waal va gaudir del sobtat privilegi d''endinsar-se en un dels palauets més luxosos de París, antiga propietat d''una influent família sefardita. Construït per desig del prestigiós filantrop i col·leccionista d''art Moïse de Camondo l''any 1912, l''edifici acull des d''aleshores una extraordinària col·lecció d''art francès del segle XVIII. Ben aviat, però, els Camondo van esdevenir objecte de l''antisemitisme, tal com havia passat als Ephrussi, antecessors de De Waal. L''infaust destí d''aquest il·lustre llinatge va marcar De Waal, que va començar a escriure les cartes aplegades en aquest llibre per retre homenatge al record d''una família perduda i «contrarestar el silenci del desdeny». El resultat és una reflexió personalíssima i commovedora sobre el preu de l''assimilació, la malenconia, els vincles familiars, l''art, les vicissituds de la història i el valor de la memòria.«Un dels llibres més bonics i commovedors que he llegit en molt de temps».Mauricio Bach, La Vanguardia«En les pàgines de Cartes a Camondo conviuen la bellesa i el drama, la riquesa i la desolació. De Waal s''ocupa d''evocar un món de maneres proustianes previ a les persecucions del nazisme: un microcosmos cultivat i cosmopolita. Una història que podria ser considerada una seqüela de La llebre amb ulls d''ambre».Luis M. Alonso, Abril (El Periódico)«Un llibre sensibilíssim i molt ben tramat. Un compassiu i extraordinari homenatge a una família sefardita».Biel Mesquida, Abril (El Periódico)«En aquest admirable i compassiu homenatge a una família sefardita del segle xx, l''autor reuneix amb destresa a persones i objectes que la història va separar. Un complement magnífic al fascinant relat de La llebre amb ulls d''ambre».Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian