레이먼드 카버

소개

레이먼드 클레비 카버(Raymond Clevie Carver, 1938년 5월 25일 ~ 1988년 8월 2일)는 미국의 소설가이자 시인이다. "실제로 사람들이 사용하는 언어로 작품을 쓰겠다"고 천명한 미대륙의 국민시인 워즈워스 이후 일상어로 작품을 쓰는 데 성공한 이백년 만의 작가로 미국 문학사는 그를 기록하고 있다.

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."