爱丽丝·沃克

美国作家和社会活动家

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
沃克在2007年
出生 (1944-02-09) 1944年2月9日80岁)
 美国佐治亚州伊屯顿英语Eatonton, Georgia
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.com

早期生活

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

 
2009年Ms.杂志封面,封面人物为格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆和爱丽丝·沃克

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森,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英语Rebecca Walker。沃克和她的丈夫于1976年离婚。[10]

90年代中期,沃克与女创作歌手特蕾西·查普曼开始了一段恋情。[11][12]

作品

小说和短篇故事集

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

参考资料

  1. ^ "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.)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ 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). 
  5. ^ World Authors 1995-2000, 2003. Biography Reference Bank database. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
  6. ^ 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). 
  7. ^ 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). 
  8. ^ 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). 
  9. ^ 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). 
  10. ^ 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). 
  11. ^ Wajid, Sara. No Retreat. The Guardian (London). 2006-12-15 [2013-05-26]. (原始内容存档于2013-07-10). 
  12. ^ No retreat. The Guardian. [2014-07-07]. (原始内容存档于2014-08-02). 

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