Geraldine Brooks (writer)

Geraldine Brooks (born September 14, 1955 in Sydney ) is an Australian journalist and writer .

After studying at Sydney University and working as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald , she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal from 1983 to the mid-1990s .

Her first book, The Daughters of Allah , in which she describes her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, was published in 1994. It became an international bestseller and has been translated into 17 languages.

After Die Berber-Frauen (1997), Memories of their travels through North Africa, her first novel was published in 2001 under the title The Plague Shroud .

In 2005 she published her book March (German on open field ), a novel that takes up the material of the American classic Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and describes a love story against the backdrop of the Civil War . The book won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The main character of the novel is a Protestant preacher in the northern states , who invested all his fortune in the fight against slavery and thus plunged the entire family into poverty. March finally volunteers as a field preacher for service in the Northern Army and ends up on a liberated plantation in the Southern States. When a guerrilla group of the Southern Army raids the plantation, March is seriously injured and is taken to a troop hospital in New York. When his wife visits him there, she finds that the positive reports her husband had sent her from the front were all lies.

Geraldine Brooks was honored with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2010 for her life's work.

Brooks was married to journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Horwitz from 1984 until his death in May 2019 .

Web links

• http://www.geraldinebrooks.com/
• Literature by and about Geraldine Brooks in the catalog of the German National Library

Single receipts

1. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2010 Winners