How to Say Babylon
A Memoir
A lyrical memoir of Safiya Sinclair's struggle to break free from her rigid Rastafarian upbringing and find her own voice.
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Specificaties
| ISBN/EAN | 9781668032220 |
| Auteur | Safiya Sinclair |
| Uitgever | Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V. |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
| Pagina's | 352 |
| Lengte | 228.0 mm |
| Breedte | 154.0 mm |
SafiyaSinclairwasbornandraisedinMontegoBay,Jamaica.Sheistheauthorofthememoir HowtoSay Babylon ,winneroftheNationalBookCriticsCircleAward,afinalistfortheWomen’sPrizeinNonfiction, theOCMBocasPrizeforCaribbeanLiterature,andtheKirkusPrize. HowtoSayBabylon wasoneofthe NewYorkTimes ’s100NotableBooksoftheyear,a WashingtonPost Top10Bookof2023,a TIME magazine Top10NonfictionBookof2023,oneof TheAtlantic ’s10BestBooksof2023,aReadwith Jenna/ TODAY show book clubpick,andoneofPresidentBarackObama’s favorite booksof2023. How toSayBabylon wasalsonamedaBestBookoftheYearby TheNew Yorker , NPR, The Guardian ,the Los Angeles Times , Vulture , and Harper’s Bazaar, among others, and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year . The audiobook of How to Say Babylon wasnamedaBestAudiobookoftheYearby AudioFile magazine. Sinclairisalsotheauthorofthepoetrycollection Cannibal ,winnerofaWhitingAward,theAmerican AcademyofArtsandLetters’AddisonMetcalfAwardinLiterature,theOCMBocasPrizeforCaribbean Poetry,andthePrairieSchoonerBookPrizeinPoetry.Sinclair’sotherhonoursincludeaGuggenheim fellowship,andfellowshipsfromthePoetryFoundation,theCivitellaRainieriFoundation,theElizabeth GeorgeFoundation,MacDowell,Yaddo,theBreadLoafWriters’Conference,andtheFineArtsWork CenterinProvincetown.SheiscurrentlyanassociateprofessorofcreativewritingatArizonaState University.