爱丽丝·沃克
美国作家和社会活动家
(重定向自愛麗絲·沃克)
爱丽丝·沃克(英语:Alice Walker,1944年2月9日—),美国作家和社会活动家,曾获普利策小说奖、美国国家图书奖[1][2][3],代表作为《紫色姐妹花》,斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格曾将其改编为同名电影。
爱丽丝·沃克 Alice Walker | |
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出生 | 美国佐治亚州伊屯顿 | 1944年2月9日
职业 | 小说家,短篇小说作家,诗人,政治活动家 |
创作时期 | 1968年–至今 |
体裁 | 非裔美国文学 |
代表作 | 《紫色姐妹花》 |
奖项 | 普利策小说奖 1983 美国国家图书奖 1983 |
配偶 | Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (1967年结婚,1976年离婚) |
伴侣 | Robert Allen,特蕾西·查普曼 |
子女 | Rebecca Walker |
官方网站 | |
alicewalkersgarden |
早期生活
编辑爱丽丝·沃克出生于佐治亚州的一个小镇[4],有兄弟姊妹八人,她最小。母亲为帮佣[5],从小便必须打理家务[6]。八岁时因哥哥不慎导致右眼失明[7]。曾任教于加州大学,致力介绍非洲作家,并长期关注民权、妇女运动。
个人生活
编辑1965年,沃克与犹太民权律师Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal相遇。他们1967年3月17日在纽约市结婚。那年晚些时候夫妇搬迁到密西西比州杰克逊,成为“密西西比第一对合法结婚的跨种族夫妇”。[8][9]他们受到白人的骚扰和威胁,包括三K党。他们夫妇1969年生了一个女儿Rebecca。沃克和她的丈夫于1976年离婚。[10]
作品
编辑小说和短篇故事集
编辑- The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
- In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
- Meridian (1976)
- 《紫色姐妹花》 (1982)
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
- To Hell With Dying (1988)
- The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
- Finding the Green Stone (1991)
- Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
- The Complete Stories (1994)
- By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
- The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
- Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) Random House ISBN 9781588363961
诗集
编辑- Once (1968)
- Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
- Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
- A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
- Collected Poems (2005)
- Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
非小说类书籍
编辑- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
- Living by the Word (1988)
- Warrior Marks (1993)
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
- Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
- Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
- Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
- We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
- Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)
- Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir (2011)
延伸阅读
编辑- 爱丽丝·沃克著,施寄青译:《紫色姐妹花》(台北:大地出版社,1986)
- White, Evelyn C. Alice Walker: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32826-4.
- Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women. Diane Books Publishing Company. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7881-5581-9.
参考资料
编辑- ^ "National Book Awards - 1983" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
(With essays by Anna Clark and Tarayi Jones from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) - ^ From 1980 to 1983 there were dual hardcover and paperback awards of the National Book Award for Fiction. Walker won the award for hardcover fiction.
- ^ "Fiction" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
- ^ Logue, Victoria and Logue, Frank. Touring the Backroads of North and South Georgia. Winston-Salem NC: John F. Blair. 1997: 165 [2014-07-07]. ISBN 978-0-89587-171-8. (原始内容存档于2014-01-03).
- ^ World Authors 1995-2000, 2003. Biography Reference Bank database. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
- ^ Walker, Alice. Alice Walker. The Tavis Smiley Show. The Smiley Group. 2010-05-06 [2014-07-07]. (原始内容存档于2010-06-20).
- ^ Walker, Alice. Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self (PDF). Kingsberry. 2006 [2012-08-29]. (原始内容存档 (PDF)于2013-07-24).
- ^ Driscoll, Margarette. The day feminist icon Alice Walker resigned as my mother. The Times (London). 2008-05-04. (原始内容存档于2008-05-11).
- ^ Inner Light in a Time of Darkness: A Conversation with Author and Poet Alice Walker. Democracy Now!. 2006-11-17 [2007-06-14]. (原始内容存档于2007-06-13).
- ^ Krum, Sharon. Can I survive having a baby? Will I lose myself ... ?. The Guardian (London). 2007-05-26 [2014-07-07]. (原始内容存档于2012-08-07).
- ^ Wajid, Sara. No Retreat. The Guardian (London). 2006-12-15 [2013-05-26]. (原始内容存档于2013-07-10).
- ^ No retreat. The Guardian. [2014-07-07]. (原始内容存档于2014-08-02).
外部链接
编辑- 爱丽丝·沃克官方网站 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- 诗歌基金会上的爱丽丝·沃克简介 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Poets.org上的爱丽丝·沃克简介 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
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