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第69回（2004年） Winner
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
アドリアン・ニコール・ルブラン
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- Leominster, Massachusetts
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Manhattan, New York City
経歴
- 職業
- journalist, non-fiction writer, researcher
- 活動期間
- 1990年〜
- 所属
- American Academy in Berlin (Holtzbrinck Fellow), NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (visiting scholar), Baruch College Harman Writer-in-Residence Program
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith College | — | — | BA | — | United States |
| University of Oxford | — | modern literature | Master's | — | United Kingdom |
| Yale University | — | — | — | — | United States |
Smith College
学位:
BA
国:
United States
University of Oxford
modern literature
学位:
Master's
国:
United Kingdom
Master's degree in modern literature (Oxford)
Yale University
国:
United States
Attended/affiliated with Yale University (details not specified)
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Margolis Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Lettre Ulysses Award | Random Family | — | Lettre Ulysses | 受賞 |
| 2003 | The New York Times Best Books of the Year | Random Family | — | The New York Times | 選出 |
| — | Borders Original Voices Award (Nonfiction) | Random Family | — | Borders | 受賞 |
| 2006 | MacArthur Fellowship | — | — | MacArthur Foundation | 受賞 |
Margolis Award
2000
結果:
受賞
Lettre Ulysses Award
2003
対象作品:
Random Family
主催:
Lettre Ulysses
結果:
受賞
The New York Times Best Books of the Year
2003
対象作品:
Random Family
主催:
The New York Times
結果:
選出
Borders Original Voices Award (Nonfiction)
対象作品:
Random Family
主催:
Borders
結果:
受賞
MacArthur Fellowship
2006
主催:
MacArthur Foundation
結果:
受賞
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
2003年 Non-fiction / long-form journalism 448ページRandom Family follows two women and their extended family in the Bronx over more than a decade, chronicling poverty, drugs, relationships, and incarceration. The book is based on long-term immersive reporting and extensive interviews, portraying the realities of marginalized urban life.
povertyincarcerationfamily dynamicsdrug-related issuesurban marginalization
全著作
- Gang Girl: When Manny's Locked-Up (1994)
- Landing from the Sky (The New Yorker, 2000)
- When the Man of the House Is in the Big House (Cover, 2003)
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
- Sidelines (contribution to Geblendet / Dazzled, 2005)
- 'The Ground We Lived On: A Father's Last Days' (NPR, 2006)
作風・主題
- 文体
- immersive, fieldwork-based reportagenarrative structure typical of long-form non-fictiondetailed character-driven and ethnographic description
- 頻出モチーフ
- marginalized communitiesfamily cycles and intergenerational conflicttension between institutions and individuals (prisons, welfare, etc.)
評価・遺産
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is recognized for her long-term immersive reporting documenting marginalized urban lives. She is regarded as an influential figure in long-form non-fiction and journalism. Random Family prompted discussion about research methods, ethics, and the possibilities of narrative non-fiction.
豆知識
- Random Family took more than ten years of research and reporting to complete.
- She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 (commonly known as the "Genius Grant").