Colson Whitehead
Tampilan
Colson Whitehead | |
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Lahir | Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead 06 November 1969 New York City, New York, Amerika Serikat |
Pekerjaan | Penulis |
Kebangsaan | Amerika Serikat |
Pendidikan | Universitas Harvard |
Genre | Fiksi, non-fiksi |
Karya terkenal | The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Zone One, The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys |
Penghargaan | National Book Award for Fiction (2016) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017 dan 2020) |
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (lahir 6 November 1969) adalah seorang novelis Amerika Serikat. Ia adalah pengarang tujuh novel, yang meliputi karya debutnya tahun 1999, The Intuitionist, dan The Underground Railroad (2016), yang membuatnya memenangkan National Book Award for Fiction 2016 dan Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. Ia kembali memenangkan Pulitzer Prize for Fiction pada 2020 untuk The Nickel Boys.[1][2] Ia juga menerbitkan dua buku non-fiksi. Pada 2002, ia meraih MacArthur Genius Grant.
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ "2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Nominees". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2017. Diakses tanggal April 10, 2017.
- ^ "2020 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020. Diakses tanggal May 4, 2020.
Bacaan tambahan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Fain, Kimberly. Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Kelly, Adam. "Freedom to Struggle: The Ironies of Colson Whitehead". Open Library of the Humanities (October 2018).
- Maus, Derek C. Understanding Colson Whitehead, revised and expanded edition. University of South Carolina Press, 2021.
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]Wikiquote memiliki koleksi kutipan yang berkaitan dengan: Colson Whitehead.
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Colson Whitehead.
- Situs web resmi
- Kemunculan di C-SPAN
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- On Point - What's in a Name? (interview, 2006-09-04)