Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Čitanje i razgovor na temu knjiga "Why War is Never a Good Idea" i "There's a Flower at the End of My Nose Smelling Me"
Rođen/a:	9. 2. 1944. (1944-02-09) Eatonton, Georgia
Profesija:	romanopisac, novelistica, pjesnikinja
Žanrovi:	Afroamerička književnost
Utjecaji:	Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston
Utjecao/la na:	Gayl Jones

Alice Malsenior Walker (9.2. 1944.-) je američka spisateljica i feministica. Godine 1983. je za svoj hvaljeni roman The Color Purple dobila Pulitzerovu nagradu za fikciju.

Odabrana djela

Romani i zbirke priča

• The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
• Everyday Use (1973)
• In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
• Meridian (roman) (1976)
• The Color Purple (1982)
• You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
• Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (1983)
• To Hell With Dying (1988)
• The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
• Finding the Green Stone (1991)
• Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
• The Complete Stories (1994)
• By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
• The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
• Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005)

Zbirke poezije

• Once (1968)
• Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
• Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
• Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
• Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
• Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
• A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
• Collected Poems (2005)

Publicistika

• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
• Living by the Word (1988)
• Warrior Marks (1993)
• The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
• Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
• Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
• Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
• Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
• Women
• We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
• Mississippi Winter IV

Knjige o Alice Walker

• Alice Walker: A Life, Evelyn C. White, Norton, 2004

Vanjski linkovi

• The Sabanci University School of Languages Podcasts: The World in Alice Walker's Eye
• Poem: A Mother's Day Plea
• Living By Grace
• Alice Walker on AALBC.com
• New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Interview with Alice Walker by ascent magazine

Video

• "Alice Walker on the 'Toxic Culture' of Globalization", from Democracy Now! program, October 27, 2004
• "'I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan' - Author, Actress, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own Words", interview from Democracy Now! program, February 13, 2006
• "Alice Walker in Black and White"