Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff | |
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 Wolff di Kepler's di Menlo Park, California, 25 April 2008 | |
| Lahir | Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff 19 Juni 1945 Birmingham, Alabama, Amerika Serikat |
| Pekerjaan | Penulis |
| Genre | memoir, cerita pendek, novel |
| Pasangan | Catherine Dolores Spohn (m. 1975; 3 anak) |
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (kelahiran 19 Juni 1945) adalah seorang pengarang Amerika.[2] Ia dikenal karena memoir buatannya, yakni This Boy's Life (1989) dan In Pharaoh's Army (1994). Ia juga menulis dua novel, yang meliputi The Barracks Thief (1984), yang memenangkan Penghargaan PEN/Faulkner untuk Fiksi dan kumpulan cerita pendek. Wolff meraih sebuah National Medal of Arts dari Presiden Barack Obama pada September 2015.[3]
Karya
[sunting | sunting sumber]Novel
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Ugly Rumours (1975) ISBN 0-04-823117-7
- The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella) ISBN 0-88001-049-5
- Old School (2003) ISBN 0-375-40146-6
Kumpulan cerita pendek
[sunting | sunting sumber]- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981) ISBN 0-88001-497-0
- "Smokers," Originally Published in The Atlantic, December 1976
- Hunters in the Snow (1981)
- Back in the World (1985)
- The Collected Short Stories ISBN 0-7475-3153-6
- The Night in Question (1997) ISBN 0-679-78155-2
- Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) ISBN 978-1-4000-4459-7
Volume yang disunting
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983) ISBN 0-931694-17-5
- Best American Short Stories (1994)
- The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) ISBN 0-679-74513-0
Non-fiksi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- This Boy's Life (1989), sebuah memoir tentang masa kecilnya pada 1950an ISBN 0-8021-3668-0
- In Pharaoh's Army (1994), sebuah memoir tentang pengalamannya sebagai seorang prajurit dalam Perang Vietnam. ISBN 0-679-76023-7
Cerita pendek
[sunting | sunting sumber]- "Fortune". Granta (24 (Inside Intelligence)). Summer 1988. (Subscription Required)
- "Memorial". Granta (44 (The Last Place on Earth)). Summer 1993. (Subscription Required)
- "Bible". The Atlantic. Fiction Issue. 2007.
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Adams, Tim (25 Januari 2004). "Wolff at the door". The Observer. London. Diakses tanggal 21 Mei 2010.
- ^ "Tobias Wolff". This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape. Alabama Center for the Book, Auburn University. 30 Mei 2008. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2010-09-17. Diakses tanggal 21 Mei 2010.
- ^ "Obama awards Stanford's Tobias Wolff a National Medal of Arts | The Dish". news.stanford.edu. Diakses tanggal 2015-12-17.
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Übermensch Diarsipkan 2015-02-14 di Wayback Machine., an excerpt from the novel Old School in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2003)
- Jack Livings (Fall 2004). "Tobias Wolff, The Art of Fiction No. 183". The Paris Review.
- Stifled Truth Diarsipkan 2009-01-11 di Wayback Machine., an appreciation of Wolff's publications to date, by Wyatt Mason in the London Review of Books
- Tobias Wolff reads his short story, "Say Yes" recorded at the Progressive Reading Series, San Francisco 2008
- 'Old School', an interview with Tobias Wolff in the Oxonian Review
- Jane Curtin reading Tobias Wolff's story "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" di YouTube
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