Rita Bullwinkel – författare

A story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024Named a Best Book of 2024 by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Elle, Vulture, Lit Hub, and The Guardian“Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewAn electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competitionAn unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic, and punctuated by flashes of humor and tenderness, prizewinning writer Rita Bullwinkel animates the competitors’ pasts and futures as they summon the emotion, imagination, and force of will required to win.Frenetic, surprising, and strikingly original, Headshot is a portrait of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness, and sheer physical pleasure that motivate young women to fight—even, and perhaps especially, when no one else is watching.

Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they''ve been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.

Geschnatter auf der Damentoilette fur immer. SOPHIE PASSMANN 22 Autor:innen erzahlen von einem Ort, an dem Fremde zu Komplizinnen werden, an dem man sich Lippenstift borgt, uber Liebeskummer spricht, lacht, trinkt, sich trostet, gemeinsam durch die Nacht geht. Ein Ort, an dem das Leben spielt, reich an au ergewohnlichen Geschichten: die Damentoilette. Ein Band, der vom spirit herausragender Stimmen getragen wird und Schwesternschaft feiert hellwach und radikal gegenwartig. Mit Beitragen von Gabriele von Arnim, Claire Beermann, Rita Bullwinkel, Katja Eichinger, Ubin Eoh, Xiaochun Fan, Sonja Finck, Nora Gantenbrink, Ilona Hartmann, Lin Hierse, Annabelle Hirsch, Mareile Hoppner, Heidi Julavits, Enuma Okoro, Elina Penner, Caroline Rosales, Jovana Reisinger, Leanne Shapton, Nicole Seifert, Marlene S rensen, Dana Vowinckel und Kim Addonizio. Die Damentoilette: unser Safe Space kein besserer Ort fur Zusammenbruche, Solidaritat und Glucksmomente. Endlich schaut jemand dorthin, wo wir schon immer zusammengehalten haben. MARIA-CHRISTINA PIWOWARSKI

På ett dammigt gym i Reno samlas åtta tonårstjejer för den nationella finalen i boxningsturneringen Daughters of Americas Cup. Var och en med sin egen anledning till uppoffringarna de tvingats till för att fightas om att bli mästare.Match för match, slag för slag,framkommer vad som driver tonårsboxarna, var de kommer ifrån och vad som väntar dem i framtiden, efter att de blivit utslagna ur turneringen eller tagit sig vidare till nästa runda. Vad som sker inne huvudena de så desperat försöker att skydda: begär, avund, vänskap, rivalitet och den rena fysiska njutning som motiverar unga kvinnor att kämpa, även - och kanske främst - när ingen annan ser på.Huvudslag är en skildring av en oktett människoöden, så fängslande att boken såväl nominerades till Bookerpriset som var finalist till Pulitzerpriset.