Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her other novels include Mother Country and Lila. Gilead won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award and Home won the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her näytä lisää nonfiction books include When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, and The Death of Adam. She was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama. She received the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. She has been named the winner of the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010) — Tekijä — 429 kappaletta
Robinson Marilynne 1 kappale
Robinson, Marilynne Archive 1 kappale
Connie Bronson {story} 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories {9 stories} (1899) — Johdanto, eräät painokset — 1,128 kappaletta
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Avustaja — 138 kappaletta
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Avustaja — 124 kappaletta
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Avustaja — 81 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Virallinen nimi
- Summers Robinson, Marilynne
- Syntymäaika
- 1943-11-26
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Sandpoint, Idaho, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Sandpoint, Idaho, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA - Koulutus
- Brown University (BA, 1966)
University of Washington (PhD, English, 1977) - Ammatit
- Professor of English and Creative Writing
novelist
essayist - Organisaatiot
- University of Iowa (Writers' Workshop)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Dwight H. Terry Lectureship
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2013)
National Humanities Medal (2012)
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1980)
Library of Congress Prize (American Fiction ∙ 2016) - Agentti
- Ellen Levine (The Ellen Levine Literary Agency)
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
Gilead, Someone explain it to me... (heinäkuu 2014)
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But the main body of this novel describes how Ruth, together with her sister Lucille, subsequently came under the care of her aunt Sylvie, a confused, chaotic and very dreamy character. Robinson writes quite emphatically: “it was the beginning of Sylvie's housekeeping”, and in doing so she immediately provides us with a key to reading this novel. After all, it is not only about the struggle to keep the house (literally), but also about keeping it 'in order', and by extension also one's own life. Looking back on it, you notice that all the characters in this novel struggle with this: getting a grip on their own lives, curbing the inherent chaos of life and steering it in the right direction, and what you have to give up and sacrifice in doing so, and whether such an orderly life is actually the right choice. And all that aggravated by the struggle with loss, grief, isolation and loneliness, especially as a woman or a girl.
In other words, through Ruth Foster's coming-of-age story, Robinson opens up a reflection on what this life is all about and whether it makes sense to control it. To be clear: she does not give simple, obvious answers, but above all - through Ruth - asks the right questions. And thus there is a link with the Gilead novels, which essentially deal with the same theme, but with a clear, more religious - read Calvinist - slant, in which the question of good and evil, damnation and grace are more central. I think that Robinson definitely shows even more mastery in some of those Gilead novels, both stylistically and substantively, but with this 'Housekeeping' she already showed that her novels are among the best of what has been written in recent decades, worldwide.… (lisätietoja)