Whiting Awards
1回登壇
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第18回（2002年） Winner
Danzy Senna
ダンジー・セナ
Danzy Senna
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- 1970-09-13 （Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.）
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Boston (early life) → Brooklyn (1990s) → Southern California (since 2005) → Los Angeles area
経歴
- 職業
- novelist, essayist, professor
- 活動期間
- 1998年〜
- 所属
- University of Southern California, Sarah Lawrence College (former teaching)
- 影響を受けた人物
- Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, William Faulkner
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts | — | — | — | — | United States |
| Stanford University | American Studies | American Studies | BA | 1988–1992 | United States |
| University of California, Irvine | Creative Writing (MFA) | Creative Writing | MFA | — | United States |
Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts
国:
United States
An independent arts school in Boston; part of her early arts education.
Stanford University
American Studies
/ American Studies
学位:
BA
期間:
1988–1992
卒業年:
1992
国:
United States
Wrote an honors thesis on Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, and William Faulkner.
University of California, Irvine
Creative Writing (MFA)
/ Creative Writing
学位:
MFA
卒業年:
1997
国:
United States
Wrote her first novel, Caucasia, while at UCI.
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Dos Passos Prize | — | — | Dos Passos Prize committee | Won |
| 2002 | Whiting Award | — | — | Whiting Foundation | Won |
| 1999 | Alex Award | Caucasia | — | American Library Association | Won |
| 2025 | American Book Award | — | — | Before Columbus Foundation | Won |
| 2025 | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award | — | — | Anisfield-Wolf Committee | Won |
Dos Passos Prize
2017
主催:
Dos Passos Prize committee
結果:
Won
Whiting Award
2002
主催:
Whiting Foundation
結果:
Won
Alex Award
1999
対象作品:
Caucasia
主催:
American Library Association
結果:
Won
American Book Award
2025
主催:
Before Columbus Foundation
結果:
Won
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
2025
主催:
Anisfield-Wolf Committee
結果:
Won
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Caucasia
1998年 Fiction (novel)A coming-of-age novel following Birdie Lee, a biracial girl forced to assume a new identity by her mother while searching for family and self.
raceidentityfamily
Symptomatic
2003年 Psychological thriller (novel)An unnamed young woman moves to New York for a prestigious fellowship and becomes entangled in an increasingly obsessive relationship with an older woman.
selfhoodobsessionboundaries
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History
2009年 Non-fiction (memoir)A memoir tracing her parents' marriage and divorce and exploring family history and personal identity.
family historymixed-race identitymemory
You Are Free
2011年 Short stories (fiction)A collection of stories about young, mixed-race characters navigating relationships, desire, and envy in contemporary America.
relationshipsdesireidentity
New People
2017年 Fiction (social satire)A mordantly funny social satire set in 1990s Brooklyn about a mixed-race couple and their community, drawing on elements of the author's experience.
urban lifeclasssatire
Colored Television
2024年 Fiction (contemporary novel)About a biracial novelist who abandons her art to pursue television writing, satirizing the publishing world and racial preoccupations.
media and artracial imaginationcareer and self-realization
全著作
- Caucasia (1998)
- Symptomatic (2003)
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History (2009)
- You Are Free: Stories (2011)
- New People (2017)
- Colored Television (2024)
作風・主題
- 文体
- Contemporary prose combining sharp irony and humorSatirical voice grounded in social observation
- 頻出モチーフ
- race and mixed-race identityfamily secretsclass and urban culture
評価・遺産
Danzy Senna is known for incisive work on race, identity, and family. Caucasia became widely taught in college curricula, and her recent books have received strong critical attention.
大衆文化への影響
- Colored Television selected for Good Morning America Book Club (2024)
引用
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“Don't you know who I am?”
出典: Quoted in the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night? as her father's question (2009年)
豆知識
- Married to novelist Percival Everett; they have two sons.
- Graduated from Brookline High School (1988).
- Alumna of the METCO desegregation busing program.