Jamaica Kincaid

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Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949 as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson in Saint John's , Antigua and Barbuda ) is an Antiguan - American writer .

Life

Elaine Potter Richardson lived with her stepfather, a carpenter, and her mother until 1965. In Antigua and Barbuda , where the British school system prevailed until 1967, she completed her secondary education. At the age of 17 she came to New York to work as an au pair . She then studied photography at the New York School for Social Research . She also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year .

In 1973 she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid because her family disapproved of her writing. Her first writing was a few articles for Ingenue magazine . Her novel Lucy (1990) is an imaginative account of her experiences of growing up abroad and continues the personal story she began to tell in the novel Annie John . She also published a collection of short stories , At the Bottom of the River (1983), a collection of essays , A Small Place, and more.

Jamaica Kincaid was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology published in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

She is Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College and is a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, teaching African and African-American Studies and English and American Language.

Jamaica Kincaid is an avid botanist, horticulturist and plant lover; she created a garden in Vermont and published a book about it. She also described her experience of a botanical trek to northeastern Nepal in 2002. She has two children with her ex-husband Allen Shawn .

Awards

Works

  • Girl (short story; published June 26, 1978 in the New Yorker )
  • At the Bottom of the River (1983)
    • At the bottom of the river . Translation by Sarah and Moritz Kirsch. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1986.
  • Annie John (1985)
    • Annie John . Translation by Barbara Henninges . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1989.
  • A Small Place (1988)
    • Just a small island . Translation by Ilona Lauscher. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 1993.
  • Lucy (1990)
    • Lucy . Translation by Stefanie Schaffer-de Vries. Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • Biography of a Dress (1990)
  • On Seeing England for the First Time (essay; published in Harper's Magazine in 1991 )
  • The Autobiography of My Mother (1995)
    • My mother's autobiography . Translation by Christel Dormagen. Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • My Brother (1997)
    • My brother . Translation by Sabine Herting. Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998)
  • Talk Stories (2000)
  • My Garden (book) (2001)
    • My garden (book). Translation by Renate Orth-Guttmann. Heinrich and Hahn, Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • Mr. Potter (2002)
    • Then, now and at all . Translation by Brigitte Heinrich. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2013.
  • Among Flowers (2005)
    • The flowers of the Himalayas . Translation by Nadine Lipp. Terra Mater Books, Munich 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Faculty Profile. Claremont McKenna College, accessed July 25, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Jamaica Kincaid. (No longer available online.) Harvard University, Department of African and African American Studies, archived from the original June 26, 2010 ; Retrieved July 25, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aaas.fas.harvard.edu
  3. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kincaid, Jamaica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint John's , Antigua and Barbuda