Alice Walker (1) (1944–)
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Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three toon meer collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California. Like so many characters in her fiction, Alice Walker was born into a family of sharecroppers in Eaton, Georgia. She began Spelman College on a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. While still in college, Walker became active in the civil rights movement and continued her involvement after she graduated, serving as a voter registration worker in Georgia. She also worked in a Head Start program in Mississippi and was on the staff of the New York City welfare department. She has lectured and taught at several colleges and universities and currently operates a publishing house, Wild Trees Press, of which she is a co-founder. Walker began her literary career as a poet, publishing Once: Poems in 1968. The collection reflects her experiences in the civil rights movement and her travels in Africa. Her second collection of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), is a celebration of the struggle against oppression and racism. In between these two collections, she published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), the story of Ruth Copeland, a young black girl, and her grandfather, Grange, who brutalizes his own family out of the frustrations of racial prejudice and his own sense of inadequacy. Walker's first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), established her special concern for the struggles, hardships, loyalties, and triumphs of black women, a powerful force in the rest of her fiction. Meridian (1976), her second novel, is the story of Meridian Hill, a civil rights worker. In her second collection of short stories, You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down (1981), Walker again portrays black women struggling against sexual, racial, and economic oppression. Walker's third novel, The Color Purple (1982), brought her the national recognition denied her earlier works. Through this story of the sharecropper Celie and the abuses she endures, Walker draws together the themes that have run through her earlier work into a concentrated and powerful attack on racism and sexism, and produces a triumphant celebration of the spirit and endurance of black women. The book received the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful film. Walker describes her most recent novel, The Temple of My Familiar (1989) as "a romance of the last 500,000 years." The book is a blend of myth and history revolving around three marriages. As the married couples tell their stories, they explore both their origins and the inner life of modern African Americans. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete (1991) 322 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (1992) 299 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness (2006) 262 exemplaren, 4 besprekingen
Alice Walker: The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple (Black Expressions Rediscovered) (1989) 136 exemplaren
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010) 92 exemplaren, 8 besprekingen
The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2012) 87 exemplaren
Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (2001) 59 exemplaren
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way (2013) 39 exemplaren
Sweet People Are Everywhere (Children Around the World Books, Diversity Books) (2021) 26 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (1999) — Features — 25 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (1993) 5 exemplaren
Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and… (2018) 3 exemplaren
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“How Poems are Made / A Discredited View” 1 exemplaar
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"The Flowers" 1 exemplaar
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WALKER, Alice - Geboortedatum
- 1944-02-09
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- Eatonton, Georgia, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Opleiding
- Spelman College
Sarah Lawrence College (BA) - Beroepen
- poet
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- Chapman, Tracy (former partner)
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- Wild Trees Press (cofounder)
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- Lillian Smith Award (National Endowment for the Arts)
Rosenthal Award (National Institute of Arts and Letters)
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Front Page Award (Newswoman's Club of New York)
Townsend Prize (toon alle 11)
Lyndhurst Prize
California Hall of Fame (2006)
Humanist of the Year (1997)
Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2016)
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Toen ik de kans kreeg om deze klassieker (voor het eerst verschenen in 1982) te lezen voelde ik me moreel verplicht om dat te doen. Jammer genoeg leven wij tegenwoordig in een tijd waarin dit boek weer brandend actueel is; door hoe er wordt gekeken naar zwarte mensen, naar vrouwen, naar zwarte vrouwen.
Ik begon dus in dit ‘moetje’ te lezen en was al heel snel verliefd op dit boek. Het was geen moeten meer maar willen en ik las het in en rotvaart uit. En wil nu dat iedereen dit pareltje leest!
Celie en haar brieven aan God sleuren je een verhaal binnen dat donker en grauw en uitzichtloos is. Een verhaal zonder hoop, toekomst, vreugde. En toch lees je geboeid en vol enthousiasme verder. Dat komt door het schrijftalent van Celie (lees: Alice); kort, no nonsens, stoutmoedig. Met de nodige humor slaagt ze er in om je op een dragelijke manier doorheen de diepe poel van ellende te slepen. Zonder iets van het verhaal te willen spoilen kan ik je zeggen dat alles met de komst van de knappe zangeres Shug Avery beter begint te gaan…
Doordat het een brievenboek is, brieven aan God én aan haar zus Nettie, kom je heel veel te weten. Dat maakt dit boek tot een soort van geschiedenisboek dat elke scholier zou moeten lezen. Onderwijzend personeel zou dit moeten aanmoedigen, zeker in België. (Ik leerde meer over onze toenmalige koning Leopold II en Congo door dit boek dan ik ooit op school hoorde.) Om de leerlingen over de streep te halen moet vermeld worden dat dit boek een lekker vleugje ‘seks, drugs en rock en roll’ bevat, echt waar. Ook mensen die de school al lang hebben verlaten moeten dit boek lezen, het is een aanrader voor iedereen die graag spannende verhalen leest, voor mensen die houden van liefdesavonturen, voor meerwaardezoeker, voor spirituelen of godsdienstigen,… kortom: voor iedereen die wil geraakt worden.
De kleur paars is een boek van vroeger over nu. Het is een hoopvol verhaal boordevol liefde, liefde in al haar facetten en vormen. Het houdt ons een spiegel voor en geeft ons een schop onder onze kont (er is nog zo veel werk aan de winkel). Alice en Celie leren ons dat het ware geloof niet draait om een beeld van een witte oude man op een wolk, of een witte oude man vooraan in een kerk. Het ware geloof schuilt in ieder van ons, in alles; in elke steen, vogel, boom, zonsopgang,… Het is rondom ons voor zij die het willen zien. En het allerbelangrijkste geloof is het geloof in jezelf.… (meer)