Sophie Brody Award
1回登壇
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第7回（2012年） Winner
Adina Hoffman
アディナ・ホフマン
Adina Hoffman
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- 1967 （Jackson, Mississippi）
- 国籍
- American
- 言語
- English, Hebrew
- 居住地歴
- Peterborough, New Hampshire → Houston, Texas → Jerusalem (since 1992) → New Haven
経歴
- 職業
- writer, film critic
- 活動期間
- 1989年〜
- 所属
- Ibis Editions (founder) and editor, Yale's Council on Middle East Studies
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | — | — | — | — | United States |
Wesleyan University
卒業年:
1989
国:
United States
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Windham–Campbell Literature Prize | — | — | Yale University | winner |
| 2010 | Wingate Prize | My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness | — | Jewish Quarterly-Wingate | winner |
| 2011 | John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | fellow |
| 2012 | Sophie Brody Medal | Sacred Trash | Outstanding Jewish Literature | American Library Association | winner (with Peter Cole) |
| 2020 | PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography | Ben Hecht | — | PEN America | finalist |
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2013
主催:
Yale University
結果:
winner
Wingate Prize
2010
対象作品:
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
主催:
Jewish Quarterly-Wingate
結果:
winner
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2011
主催:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果:
fellow
Sophie Brody Medal
2012
対象作品:
Sacred Trash
部門:
Outstanding Jewish Literature
主催:
American Library Association
結果:
winner (with Peter Cole)
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
2020
対象作品:
Ben Hecht
主催:
PEN America
結果:
finalist
受賞・候補エディション
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第1回（2013年） Winner
作品
代表作
House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood
2000年 essaysA series of linked essays about her North African Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem lifeNeighborhood portraits
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
2009年 biographyLife and times of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali.
Palestinian literaturePoet's life
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
2011年 non-fictionWith Peter Cole, explores the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza.
Jewish historyGeniza
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
2016年 non-fictionArchitects of a new city in Jerusalem.
ArchitectureJerusalem
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
2019年 biographyBiography of screenwriter Ben Hecht.
HollywoodJewish American
全著作
- House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood
- My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
- Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
- Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
- Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
作風・主題
- 文体
- blends literary and documentary elementssteadily perceptive and brimming with informed passion
- 頻出モチーフ
- lives and afterlives of people, movies, buildings, books, and certain city streets
評価・遺産
American writer whose work blends literary and documentary elements, focusing on lives in Palestinian century, Jerusalem, etc.
豆知識
- Married to poet and translator Peter Cole.
- Founder and editor of Ibis Editions.