Rosa Guy

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Rosa Cuthbert Guy (born September 1, 1922 in Diego Martin , Trinidad ; † June 3, 2012 in New York City ) was an American writer and author of young books.

Life

Rosa Guy had lived in the United States since she was seven . In 1932 she came to Harlem , New York with her family . Shortly afterwards, her mother, Audrey Cuthbert, died. After her father died, she dropped out of school at 14 and started working. As orphans, she and her sister lived in many nursing homes in childhood and adolescence, and this experience provided the material for many later stories. Several of their works took place in Harlem. She had a son from her later divorced marriage to Walter Guy.

During World War II she joined the American Negro Theater in. She studied acting and literature at the University of New York. In 1950 she became a founding member of the Harlem Writers Guild .

Most of her youth books are about the reliability of family members who care and love one another. She also writes adult novels such as Bird at My Window, about the life of a young man who died of poverty and violence, and The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind . In a non-fiction book Children of Longing (1971) she collected interviews with young people about their future prospects and goals in life. She also wrote plays. A musical titled Once on This Island was based on her 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl. It played on Broadway for over a year (1990–1991) and was nominated for eight Tony awards .

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

Works

Novels

  • Bird at My Window. 1966.
  • A Measure of Time. 1983.
  • My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl. 1985.
  • The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind. 1995.

Non-fiction

  • Children of Longing. 1971. (as editor)
    • German: children of longing. Translated from the English by Helga M. Wegener. Junior-Press, Augsburg 1973, ISBN 3-921216-06-8 .

Youth books

  • Mirror of Her Own. 1981.
  • The ups and downs of Carl Davis. III, 1989.

trilogy

  • The Friends. 1973.
    • German: Phyllisia. Translated from the English by Heike Brandt. Alibaba, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-922723-95-0 .
  • Ruby. 1976.
  • Edith Jackson. 1978.

Imamu Jones detective series

  • The Disappearance. 1979.
    • German: disappeared without a trace. Translated from the English by Heike Brandt. Alibaba, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-922723-55-1 .
  • New Guys Around the Block. 1983.
    • German: The trail leads to Harlem. Translated from the English by Heike Brandt. Alibaba, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-922723-60-8 .
  • And I Heard a Bird Sing. 1987.
    • German: The dead in the pool. Translated from the English by Gerda Bean. Alibaba, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-86042-173-5 .

Children's books

  • Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog. 1984.
  • Billy the Great. 1991.

Essays

  • "Heroes and Sheroes": or How a colored woman discovered colonialist and racist traits in western youth literature. In: Klaus Doderer (ed.): New heroes in children's and youth literature: results of a conference . Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim 1986, ISBN 3-7799-0442-X , pp. 110-115.
  • The human spirit. In: Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe (Ed.): Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference . University of Massachusetts Press, Wellesley 1990, ISBN 0-87023-731-4 , pp. 128-133.

Awards

  • American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award
    • 1973 for The Friends
    • 1976 for Ruby
    • 1978 for Edith Jackson
    • 1979 for The Disappearance
    • 1981 for A Mirror of Her Own
  • New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Award
    • for The Friends and The Disappearance
  • Children's Rights Workshop Other Award
    • 1987 for My Love, My Love or The Peasant Girl
  • Coretta Scott King Award
    • 1982 for Mother Crocodile
  • Parents' Choice Award for Literature
    • 1982 for New Guys Around the Block
  • Blue spectacled snake
    • 1991 for Phyllisia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosa Guy. In: aalbc.com. African American Literature Book Club, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ Margalit Fox: Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People, Dies. In: The New York Times . June 7, 2012, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Dorothea Löbbermann: Memories of Harlem: literary (re) construction of a myth of the twenties . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-593-37059-X , p. 31-34 .
  4. ^ Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners 1970 to Present. In: aalbc.com. African American Literature Book Club, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English, the year 1982 may have to be selected).
  5. ↑ Anna Katharina Ulrich: A girl friendship in Harlem: Youth book prize "Blue glasses snake" for "Phyllisia" by Rosa Guy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Vol. 213, No. 7, 1992, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Guy, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guy, Rosa Cuthbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American youth crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Diego Martin , Trinidad
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 2012
Place of death New York City