Pura Belpré Award
1回登壇
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第17回（2018年） Winner
Ruth Behar
ルース・ベハール
Ruth Behar
プロフィール
- 性別
- 女性
- 生誕
- Havana, Cuba
- 国籍
- Cuban-American
- 言語
- English, Spanish
- 宗教
- Judaism
- 居住地歴
- Havana, Cuba → New York, USA → Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
経歴
- 職業
- Cultural Anthropologist, Writer
- 活動期間
- 1977年〜2025年
- 所属
- University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology
- 影響を受けた人物
- Clifford Geertz, Claude Lévi-Strauss
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | — | Undergraduate | B.A. | — | United States |
| Princeton University | — | Cultural Anthropology | Ph.D. | — | United States |
Wesleyan University
Undergraduate
学位:
B.A.
卒業年:
1977
国:
United States
Princeton University
Cultural Anthropology
学位:
Ph.D.
卒業年:
1983
国:
United States
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | MacArthur Fellowship | — | — | MacArthur Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2018 | Pura Belpré Award | Lucky Broken Girl | — | American Library Association | 受賞 |
| 2025 | Newbery Honor | Across So Many Seas | — | American Library Association | 名誉賞 |
MacArthur Fellowship
1988
主催:
MacArthur Foundation
結果:
受賞
Pura Belpré Award
2018
対象作品:
Lucky Broken Girl
主催:
American Library Association
結果:
受賞
Newbery Honor
2025
対象作品:
Across So Many Seas
主催:
American Library Association
結果:
名誉賞
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Lucky Broken Girl
2017年 Young Adult NovelMulticultural coming-of-age novel for young adults, based on the author's childhood in the 1960s. Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro's Cuba to New York City. A horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast. As her world shrinks, her powers of observation grow.
ImmigrationRecoveryFriendshipArts
Traveling Heavy
2013年 MemoirMemoir about her Cuban-American family, descended from Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, exploring identity and belonging.
FamilyJewish IdentityCuba
The Vulnerable Observer
1996年 Anthropological EssaysAnthropological essays arguing for the subjective nature of ethnography, advocating the 'vulnerable observer'.
SubjectivityEmotionAnthropology
Translated Woman
1993年 AnthropologyStory of Esperanza, an Indian witch in Mexico, exploring borders and women's lives.
WomenFeminismBorders
An Island Called Home
2007年 NonfictionQuest to understand Jewish Cuba and family roots through interviews and photography.
JewishDiasporaCuba
全著作
- The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa María del Monte
- Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story
- Bridges to Cuba / Puentes a Cuba
- Women Writing Culture
- The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
- An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
- The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World
- Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys
- Lucky Broken Girl
- Letters from Cuba
- Tia Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey
- Across So Many Seas
翻案
- Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love): A Cuban-American Woman's Search for Sephardic Memories
作風・主題
- 文体
- Subjective narrativePersonal ethnographyEmotional anthropology
- 頻出モチーフ
- Immigration experiencesJewish identityWomen's voicesCuban memoriesVulnerability
健康
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Broken leg1960年代、9歳時Immobilized for a year, leading to recognition that 'the body is a homeland' of memory and pain
評価・遺産
Pioneering anthropologist advocating subjective 'vulnerable observer' approach, chronicling Cuban-Jewish experiences in literature. MacArthur Fellow (1988), acclaimed in children's literature.
豆知識
- First Latina woman to receive a MacArthur Fellowship in 1988.
- Part of the over 94% of Cuban Jews who left after the 1959 revolution.