芭芭拉·金索沃尔

Barbara Kingsolver

生卒: 1955 年 4 月 8 日
出生地: 安纳波利斯
国籍 / 所属: 美国
身份: 作家、诗人、小说家、散文家
代表作: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle、毒木圣经
原文名: Barbara Kingsolver
就读: 亚利桑那大学、迪堡大学
领域: 随笔
简述: 美国作家

芭芭拉·埃伦·金索沃（Barbara Ellen Kingsolver，1955年4月8日—）是一位美国小说家、散文家和诗人。 2023年，她凭借自己的小说获得普立兹小说奖她经常关注社会正义、生物多样性以及人类和环境之间的相互作用等议题。她还是第一位两次获得百利女性小说奖的作家。自1993年以来，她的每部作品都登上了纽约时报畅销书榜。

金索沃在肯塔基州农村长大，童年时期曾在刚果民主共和国短暂居住，后来又在阿巴拉契亚定居。金索沃拥有德葩大学和亚利桑那大学的生物学、生态学和演化生物学学位。

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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.

Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011 and the National Humanities Medal. After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperhead in 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the Women's Prize for Fiction twice. Since 1993, each one of her book titles has been on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Kingsolver was raised in rural Kentucky, lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood, and as of 2024 lives in Virginia, in the Appalachia region. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. In 2000, the politically progressive Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change".

Biography

Kingsolver was born in 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland, the daughter of Wendell Roy Kingsolver and Virginia Lee (née Henry) Kingsolver, but grew up in Carlisle, Kentucky. When Kingsolver was seven, her father, a physician, took the family to Léopoldville, Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Writing career

Kingsolver began her full-time writing career in the mid-1980s as a science writer for the University of Arizona, which eventually led to freelance feature writing, including many cover stories for the local alternative weekly, the Tucson Weekly. She began her career in fiction writing after winning a short-story contest in a local Phoenix newspaper.

Bellwether Prize

In 2000, Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize for Fiction. Named for the bellwether, the literary prize supports writers whose works support positive social change. The award is given to a U.S. citizen for a previously unpublished work of fiction that addresses issues of social justice.……

Literary style and themes

Kingsolver has written novels in both the first-person and third-person narrative styles, and she frequently employs overlapping narratives.

Kingsolver often writes about places and situations with which she is familiar; many of her stories are based in places she has lived, such as Central Africa, Arizona, and Appalachia.……