Alice Walker
Si Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (namundag Pebrero 9, 1944) sarong Amerikanong nobelista, halipot na parasurat nin istorya, poeta, asin aktibistang sosyal. Kan 1982, siya an nagin inot na babaying Aprikano-Amerikano na nanggana kan Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, na iginawad saiya huli sa saiyang nobelang The Color Purple.[1] Sa lawig kan saiyang karera, si Walker nagpublikar na nin disisyeteng nobela asin halipot na osipon, doseng non-fiction na mga gibo, asin koleksyon nin mga komposisyon asin tula.
Buhay baguhon
Si Alice Malsenior Walker pinangaki sa Eatonton, Georgia, sarong banwaan sa probinsiya nin pag-ooma, ki Willie Lee Walker asin Minnie Tallulah Grant.[2][3] An mga magurang ni Walker pareho mga kahiras, minsan ngani an saiyang ina nagtrabaho man bilang paratahi tanganing makaganar nin dagdag na kwarta. Si Walker, an pinakangohod sa walong magturugang, enot na nag-enrol sa eskwelahan kan siya apat pa sanang taon sa East Putinam Consolided.[2]
Kan siya walong taon, si Walker nagkaigwa nin danyos sa saiyang toong mata pakatapos na an saro sa saiyang mga tugang makaputok nin badil na BB. Mantang an saiyang pamilya mayo nin kotse, si Walker dai nakakua nin tolos - tolos na medikal na atension, na nagin dahelan na siya magin permanenteng buta an saiyang mata iyan. Pakatapos kan danyos sa saiyang mata, pinonan ni Walker an pagbasa asin pagsurat.[2] An pinilaan hinale kan si Walker 14 anyos, an marka yaon pa man giraray. Iyan ilinaladawan sa saiyang komposisyon na "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self"[4][5]
Gawad asin onra baguhon
- MacDowell Colony Fellowships (1967 and 1974)
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (1967)
- Candace Award, Arts and Letters, National Coalition of 100 Black Women (1982)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
- National Book Award for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
- O. Henry Award for "Kindred Spirits" (1985)
- Honorary degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995)
- American Humanist Association named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997)
- Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
- Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
- Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York
- Induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (2001)
- Induction into the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (2006)
- Domestic Human Rights Award from Global Exchange (2007)
- The LennonOno Grant for Peace (2010)
Mga Piling gibo baguhon
Novels and short story collections baguhon
Poetry collections baguhon
Non-fiction books baguhon
Essays baguhon
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Mga toltolan baguhon
- ↑ "National Book Awards – 1983".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bates, Gerri (2005). Alice Walker: A Critical Companion
. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313069093. OCLC 62321382. Error sa pag-cite: Invalid <ref>tag; name ":5" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Moore, Geneva Cobb, and Andrew Billingsley.
- ↑ World Authors 1995–2000, 2003.
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