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Endpoint: Dennis Cooper



created on: 30/05/2014
by: Nathalie (5022)
 
 

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Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.
In 1976 Cooper went to England to become involved in the nascent punk scene. In the same year he began Little Caesar Magazine.
In 1978 with the success of the magazine, Cooper was able to found Little Caesar Press.
In 1979, Cooper published his first book of poetry, Idols.
Cooper's second book of poetry, Tenderness of the Wolves, published in 1982, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 1983, Cooper moved to New York City where he published his first book of fiction, a novella titled Safe, and began writing the cycle of five interconnected novels he had been planning since his mid-teens. In 1985 he moved to Amsterdam where he finished writing the first novel in the George Miles Cycle, Closer which later won the first Ferro-Grumley Award for gay literature.
He returned to New York in 1987 and began writing articles and reviews for Artforum, eventually becoming a contributing editor of the magazine.
After moving to Los Angeles from New York in 1990, Cooper collaborated with a number of artists, including composer John Zorn, painter Lari Pittman, sculptors Jason Meadows and Nayland Blake, and others. For several years, he was a contributing editor and regular writer for the rock music magazine Spin.
Since the summer of 2005, Cooper has spent most of his time in Paris working on theater works.
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Submitted by : Nathalie (5022)
on : 30/05/2014