Marilynne Robinsonová

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Marilynne Summers Robinsonová (* 26. listopadu 1943, Sandpoint, Idaho, USA) je americká spisovatelka a esejistka, členka Americké akademie umění a věd.

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Narodila se a vyrostla v Sandpoint v Idahu a studovala na Pembroke College, dřívější dívčí koleji Brownovy univerzity, kde v roce 1966 získala titul B. A. +more. V roce 1977 získala doktorát z anglického jazyka a literatury na University of Washington.

Napsala tři vysoce ceněné romány Ztrácení (Housekeeping, 1980), Gilead (2004) a Home (2008). Gilead získal Pulitzerovu cenu za literaturu a domácí britskou literární cenu Orange Prize for fiction. +more Román Home volně navazuje na Gilead a sleduje osudy rodiny reverenda Boughtona.

Jedná se také o autorku nebeletristických prací: Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989), The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998) a Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010). Píše články, eseje a recenze pro Harper's, The Paris Review a The New York Times Review.

Jakožto profesorka hostovala na mnoha univerzitách, např. na University of Kent, Amherst College, Univerzity of Massachusetts nebo Yale University.

19. dubna 2010 byla zvolena do Americké akademie umění a věd. V současnosti učí na Iowa Writers´ Workshop a žije v Iowa City.

Ocenění

1980: Ztrácení - Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel; nominace na Pulitzerovu cenu za literaturu * 2004 Gilead - 2005 Pulitzerova cena za literaturu; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; 2005 Ambassador Book Award * 2008 Home - 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction; finalistka v 2008 National Book Award

Dílo

Romány

Ztrácení (Housekeeping, 1980) * Gilead (2004) * Home (2008) * Lila (2014)

Jiné

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989) * My Western Roots (esej, 1993) * The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998) * Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010)

Externí odkazy

[url=https://web. archive. +moreorg/web/20080914111334/http://www. theparisreview. org/viewmedia. php/prmMID/5863]The Art of Fiction No. 198[/url], interview with Sarah Fay in The Paris Review, 2008. * [url=http://abc. com. au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2400421. htm]Radio Interview[/url] with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, (Australia) 31. 10. 08. Accessed 2010-05-31 * [url=http://www. moreintelligentlife. com/story/meeting-marilynne-robinson]Article - Interview of Robinson by Emily Bobrow, 2008[/url] * [url=http://www. washington. edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Northwest%20Schools%20of%20Literature/Texts/11. html]My Western Roots - Essay by Marilynne Robinson, 1993[/url]. Northwest Schools of Literature at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. * [url=http://willowsprings. ewu. edu/interviewspdf/robinson. pdf]Interview: A conversation with Marilynne Robinson[/url] April 24, 2006, by Sarah Flynn, Thomas King and Adam O'Connor Rodriguez at Eastern Washington University * [url=http://www. pbs. org/wnet/religionandethics/week829/interview. html]Interview with Marilynne Robinson, March 18, 2005, in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly[/url] * [url=http://solutions. synearth. net/2006/10/20]The God Delusion - article by Marilynne Robinson[/url] reprinted from Harper's Magazine, November, 2006 * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20090212163605/http://openlettersmonthly. com/issue/december-robinson/]Critical essay - "Marilynne Robinson's Psalms and Prophecy," from Open Letters Monthly[/url] * [url=https://web. archive. org/web/20120308025516/http://cle. ens-lyon. fr/20832994/0/fiche___pagelibre/%26RH%3DCDL_ANG000000]An interview and a reading from Gilead, Assises Internationales du Roman, Lyon 2010 (La Clé des langues)[/url].

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