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Judith Thurman

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Judith Thurman

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1946-01-01 （New York City, U.S.）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
New York City → Europe (about 5 years)

経歴

職業
Writer, Biographer, Critic
活動期間
1972年〜2025年
ノミネート
Pulitzer Prize (Finalist, 1999), National Book Award (Finalist, 1999)

学歴

Brandeis University
学位: Bachelor's
期間: 1963–1967
卒業年: 1967
国: United States

受賞歴

National Book Award for Nonfiction
1983
対象作品: Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: Won
Salon Book Award (Biography)
1999
対象作品: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
主催: Salon
結果: Won
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)
1999
対象作品: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
主催: Los Angeles Times
結果: Won
Harold G. Vursell Award (for prose style)
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: Won
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2016
主催: Government of France
結果: Won
Rungstedlund Award
主催: Karen Blixen Museum
結果: Won
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
2022
主催: PEN America
結果: Won
Bard College Mary McCarthy Prize for a Woman Writer's Life Work
主催: Bard College
結果: Won

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Putting My Coat On

1972年 Poetry

An early collection of poems, published by Covent Garden Press in London.

inner lifelanguage and perception

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

1982年 Biography

A detailed biography of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). It won the 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction and served as a basis for the film Out of Africa; Thurman served as an associate producer on the film.

biographylife of a writercolonialism and culture
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Out of Africa / Sydney Pollack (1985)

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

1999年 Biography 624ページ

A major biography of the French writer Colette, situating her morally subversive life in the social milieu of early-20th-century Paris. The book was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award and won other biography prizes.

women writersdesire and sexualityart and society

Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire

2007年 Essay collection

A collection of essays (many from The New Yorker) on style, desire, and cultural criticism.

styledesirecultural criticism

A Left-Handed Woman

2022年 Essay collection

A 2022 collection of essays that brings together lives of various left-handed women, ranging from historical figures to contemporary subjects.

women's historymicro-biographyfeminism

全著作

  • Putting My Coat On (1972)
  • I Became Alone (1975)
  • Flashlight and Other Poems (1977)
  • Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (1982)
  • Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (1999)
  • Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire (2007)
  • A Left-Handed Woman (2022)

翻案

  • Out of Africa (film, 1985) — based in part on material about Isak Dinesen; Thurman served as associate producer

作風・主題

文体
luminous, carefully wrought prosebiographical insight combined with cultural criticism
頻出モチーフ
lives of women writersdesire and embodimentstyle and expression

評価・遺産

Judith Thurman is known for richly styled biographies and cultural criticism. A National Book Award winner and long-time New Yorker staff writer, she has influenced contemporary literary biography and essay writing.

関連学会

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters (award recipient)

資料所蔵先

  • Library of Congress (authority record)
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) data

豆知識

  • Won the 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction for Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller.
  • Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award.
  • Served as an associate producer on the film Out of Africa (1985) related to her Dinesen research.
  • Long-time staff writer for The New Yorker.