Joseph Pearson (writer)

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] and the Berlin University of the Arts.[5] Since 2018, he has taught at the Barenboim-Said Academy, a peace project headed by conductor Daniel Barenboim.[6] He is the nephew of children's novelist Kit Pearson.[7]

His history and portrait of the German capital, Berlin, was published by Reaktion Press and University of Chicago Press[8] in 2017. The Independent called Berlin "the last word in explaining not only Berlin’s incredible history, but also its present day cultural situation"[9] and Bloomberg reported that the book "masterfully offers a close reading of the metropolis in all its brutal immediacy".[10] The book was also positively reviewed in The German Studies Review.[11]

Corresponding from Berlin, his work has appeared in Newsweek,[12] The New England Review,[13][14] the BBC,[15] AGNI,[16] Monocle Magazine,[17] Prism International [18] and many other publications. His non-fiction has been translated into German, French, Arabic, Mandarin and other languages.[19]

Pearson is based in Berlin, Germany, where he is the in-house essayist of the Schaubühne Theatre[20] and the editor of The Needle,[21] one of Berlin's most popular blogs.[22] He is a founding member of the artist collective, 'AGOSTO'.[23]

In 2020, he was awarded the Jacob Zilber Second Prize for Short Fiction, for his story "An Iconostasis".[24] The story was nominated in 2020 for the Pushcart Prize.[25]

• Official website