Biographie de Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Captain and the Glory ; The Monk of Mokha ; Your Fathers, Where Are They ? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever ? , shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award ; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award ; and What is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Médicis Etranger.
He is the founder of McSweeney's Publishing and the co-founder of Voice of Witness, a book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises. In 2002 he co-founded 826 Valencia, a youth writing centre with a pirate-supply storefront, which has inspired similar programmes around the world. ScholarMatch, now ten years old, connects donors with students to make college possible for all.
In 2018 Dave Eggers co-founded the International Congress of Youth Voices, a global gathering of writers and activists under twenty. He is a winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.