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Safiya Sinclair

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Safiya Sinclair

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1984-01-01 （Montego Bay, Jamaica）
国籍
Jamaican
言語
English
宗教
Rastafari (upbringing)
居住地歴
Montego Bay, Jamaica → Vermont, USA (Bennington College) → Virginia, USA (University of Virginia) → California, USA (University of Southern California) → Arizona, USA (Arizona State University)

経歴

職業
Poet, Memoirist, University professor
活動期間
2000年〜
所属
Brown University (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Literary Arts), Arizona State University (Associate Professor of Creative Writing)
影響を受けた人物
Rita Dove, Kamau Brathwaite, Rastafari culture (upbringing)
ノミネート
PEN Open Book Award (longlisted), PEN USA Literary Award (finalist), Dylan Thomas Prize (longlisted), Women's Prize for Non-Fiction (longlisted)

学歴

Bennington College
学位: BA
国: United States
Moved to the U.S. in 2006 to attend college
University of Virginia
Poetry (MFA)
学位: MFA
国: United States
Studied with Rita Dove
University of Southern California
Literature and Creative Writing
学位: PhD
国: United States

受賞歴

Prairie Schooner Book Prize
2015
対象作品: Cannibal
部門: Poetry
主催: Prairie Schooner
結果: winner
Whiting Award
2016
対象作品: Cannibal
部門: Poetry
主催: Whiting Foundation
結果: winner
American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award (Literature)
2017
部門: Literature
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: winner
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
2017
対象作品: Cannibal
部門: Poetry
主催: Bocas Lit Fest
結果: winner
Phillis Wheatley Book Award
2017
対象作品: Cannibal
部門: Poetry
主催: AALBC
結果: winner
National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography)
2024
対象作品: How to Say Babylon
部門: Autobiography
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Catacombs

2011年 Chapbook (poems & essays)

A chapbook of poems and essays written during a one-year return to Jamaica after graduating from Bennington, reflecting personal memory and Jamaican experience.

return homememoryreligious upbringing

Cannibal

2016年 Poetry collection

Sinclair's debut collection that opens with Caliban's lines from The Tempest and charts exile from a strict Rastafari upbringing through immigration to the United States, addressing exile of the body and language.

exilecolonialismthe bodylanguage

How to Say Babylon

2023年 Memoir / Non-fiction

A memoir in lyrical prose about Sinclair's strict Rastafarian childhood, her coming-of-age, and the transformations of language and identity after moving to the U.S.

upbringing and oppressionidentityimmigrant experience

全著作

  • Catacombs (Argos Books, 2011)
  • Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016)
  • How to Say Babylon: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

作風・主題

文体
lyrical, imagistic poetic styleboundary-crossing between essayistic and memoir prose
頻出モチーフ
exilethe bodylanguagereligious discipline

評価・遺産

An internationally recognized Caribbean writer who explores Rastafari upbringing and exile in lyrical language. Winner of multiple awards for Cannibal and How to Say Babylon, she is regarded as a significant voice on immigrant experience, language and the body.

大衆文化への影響

  • Read With Jenna book club pick (How to Say Babylon)
  • Appearance at the National Book Festival (2024)

引用

  • “The very name Caliban is a Shakespearean anagram of the word cannibal…,”
    出典: Poetry (essay) (2016年)
  • “For its sheer lusciousness of prose, the book's a banquet.”
    出典: The New York Times (review by Quiara Alegría Hudes) (2023年)

豆知識

  • Raised as the eldest of four children in Montego Bay.
  • First poem published at age 16 in a Jamaican newspaper.
  • Picador won UK and Commonwealth rights to several of her books at auction.
  • How to Say Babylon was selected as a Read With Jenna book club pick.