Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955 in Annapolis , Maryland ) is an American writer.

Life

The Poisonwood Bible (1998)

Barbara Kingsolver grew up in a family of doctors in rural Kentucky and lived with her parents in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo for a short time when she was seven . Kingsolver studied piano and then biology at DePauw University (B.Sc. 1977). She went to France for a year and then lived in Tucson , Arizona for the next twenty years , where she earned an MA in Environmental Science and Biology from the University of Arizona in 1980.

She worked for a time as a freelance journalist. Kingsolver married Joseph Hoffmann in 1985 and they have one daughter. Her first novel was published in 1988. Out of frustration and concern about the Gulf War , she and her daughter moved to Tenerife for a year . In 1992 she separated from her first husband. In 1994 she married the ornithologist Steven Hopp and they have a daughter. In 2004 they moved to a farm in Washington County, Virginia .

Her novel Pigs in Heaven won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1993 . In addition to the novels, she wrote Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a book about her family's experiences of eating local produce. Her books address current issues of the American liberal educated bourgeoisie and her books have regularly hit the New York Times bestseller list .

Kingsolver received an honorary doctorate from DePauw University in 1994 and an honorary doctorate from Duke University in 2008 . In 2000 she was honored with the National Humanities Medal . She has received a number of scholarships and book prizes, including a Nautilus Book Award in 2008 and the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna in 2010 , making her shortlist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011 . In 2011 she received a Dayton Literary Peace Prize . She was nominated for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction and Pulitzer Prize . In 2013 she received the Global Environmental Citizen Award .

In 2000 she donated the Bellwether Prize, which is intended to support authors of the "Literature of Social Change". Kingsolver made music for charity for a while with literary rock band Rock Bottom Remainders .

Works (selection)

The Bean Trees, anniversary edition 1998
  • The Bean Trees , 1988
    • The Bean Tree Happiness: Roman . Translation by Dorothee Asendorf. Munich ; Zurich: Piper, 1997 ISBN 978-3-492-22180-1
  • Homeland and Other Stories , 1989
  • Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 . 1989
  • Animal Dreams , 1990
  • Another America . Poems, 1992
  • Pigs in Heaven , 1993
    • Seven stars. My daughter: Roman . Translation by Dorothee Asendorf. Munich ; Zurich: Piper, 1994 ISBN 978-3-492-03684-9
  • High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never , 1995
  • The Poisonwood Bible . Harper, 1998
    • The poison wood Bible: novel . Translation Anne Ruth Frank-Strauss. Munich: Kabel, 2000 ISBN 978-3-8225-0523-6
  • Prodigal Summer , 2000
    • In the land of butterflies: novel . Translation Anne Ruth Frank-Strauss. Munich: Kabel, 2002 ISBN 978-3-8225-0597-7
  • Small Wonder: Essays , 2002
  • Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands . Photographs Annie Griffiths Belt. 2002
  • with Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life . 2007
  • The Lacuna , 2009
  • Flight behavior . 2012
    • The flight behavior of butterflies: Roman . Translation of Sylvia Spatz. Munich: C. Bertelsmann, 2014 ISBN 978-3-570-10215-2
  • Unsheltered . Faber, 2018

literature

  • Paul L. Thomas: Reading, learning, teaching Barbara Kingsolver . New York: Lang, 2005 ISBN 0-8204-7923-3
  • Marianne Novy: Reading adoption: family and difference in fiction and drama . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univ. of Michigan Press, 2005 ISBN 0-472-11507-3 . Chapter: Nurture, Loss, and Cherokee Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Novels of Cross-Cultural Adoption , pp. 188-213
  • David Peck (Ed.): American ethnic writers. 2. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.- Grace Paley . Pasadena: Salem, 2009 ISBN 978-1-58765-464-0 , pp. 622-629
  • Annika McPherson: White - female - postcolonial? : towards a "trans-cultural" reading of Marina Warner's "Indigo" and Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood bible" . Trier: Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86821-346-1 . Zugl .: Bremen, Univ., Diss., 2009
  • Axel Goodbody: Risk, Denial, and Narrative Form in Climate Change Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior and Ilija Trojanow's Melting Ice , in: Sylvia Mayer; Alexa Weik von Mossner (Ed.): The anticipation of catastrophe: environmental risk in North American literature and culture . Heidelberg: Winter, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8253-6334-5 , pp. 39-58

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SURNAME Kingsolver, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Annapolis, Maryland