Joan Didion (1934–2021)
Auteur de L'année de la pensée magique
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Sacramento, California, on December 5, 1934, Joan Didion received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956. She wrote for Vogue from 1956 to 1963, and was visiting regent's lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. Didion also published novels, afficher plus short stories, social commentary, and essays. Her work often comments on social disorder. Didion wrote for years on her native California; from there her perspective broadened and turned to the countries of Central America and Southeast Asia. Her novels include Democracy (1984) and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Well known nonfiction titles include Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), The White Album (1979), The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) and Blue Nights (2011). In 1971 Joan Didion was nominated for the National Book Award in fiction for Play It As It Lays. In 1981 she received the American Book Award in nonfiction, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Prize in nonfiction for The White Album. Didion has received a great deal of recognition for The Year of Magical Thinking, which was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2007, Didion received the National Book Foundation's annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2009, Didion was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Harvard University. On July 3, 2013 the White House announced Didion was one of the recipients of the National Medals of Arts and Humanities presented by President Barack Obama. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Joan Didion
Telling Stories (Series of Keepsakes Issued by the Friends of Bancroft Library, No. 26) (1978) 9 exemplaires
After Henry {essay} 6 exemplaires
Goodbye to All That 4 exemplaires
Didion, Joan Archive 2 exemplaires
On Self-Respect 2 exemplaires
White Album 1 exemplaire
“Quiet Days in Malibu” 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (2007) — Contributeur — 898 exemplaires
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contributeur — 217 exemplaires
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contributeur — 214 exemplaires
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contributeur — 181 exemplaires
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contributeur — 93 exemplaires
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Press (1998) — Contributeur — 89 exemplaires
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributeur — 83 exemplaires
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Didion, Joan
- Date de naissance
- 1934-12-05
- Date de décès
- 2021-12-23
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Sacramento, Californië, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- Parkinson's disease
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- University of California, Berkeley
- Professions
- writer
journalist - Relations
- Dunne, John Gregory (echtgenoot)
Dunne, Dominick (schoonbroer)
Dunne, Quintana Roo (dochter) - Organisations
- Vogue
- Prix et distinctions
- National Humanities Medal (2012)
PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
National Book Foundation Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2007)
Evelyn F. Burkey Award (2007)
Prix Medicis Essais (2007)
American Philosophical Society (2006) (tout afficher 14)
American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2006)
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2005)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2005)
Robert Kirsch Award (2005)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2005)
St Louis Literary Award (2002)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1996)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981) - Agent
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Henry Robbins
Membres
Discussions
Joan Didion? à Legacy Libraries (Novembre 2022)
Which Joan Didion book should I read first? à Book talk (Novembre 2019)
Critiques
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Read These Too (2)
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 45
- Aussi par
- 30
- Membres
- 30,552
- Popularité
- #651
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 671
- ISBN
- 439
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 138
> Psychologies magazine : https://fr.calameo.com/books/0000483785bc16b3d04fd
> L'ANNÉE DE LA PENSÉE MAGIQUE, par Joan Didion. — En France, c'est grâce à ce récit très pudique où elle évoque la mort de son mari, l'écrivain John Gregory Dunne, foudroyé par une crise cardiaque en décembre 2003, que l'on a redécouvert Joan Didion.
En France, c'est grâce à ce récit très pudique où elle évoque la mort de son mari, l'écrivain John Gregory Dunne, foudroyé par une crise cardiaque en décembre 2003, que l'on a redécouvert Joan Didion. Au-delà des souvenirs personnels, l'Américaine explore le vertige du deuil, tout en commentant les auteurs qui ont le mieux parlé de la mort et qui l'ont aidée à l'affronter. Son arme contre l'absence et la solitude, c'est l'imagination, "le sentiment de pouvoir contrôler les événements par la seule force de la pensée", écrit-elle. Son livre raconte cette lutte, une ascèse à la Montaigne pour apprivoiser l'insoutenable. Et pour que la parole triomphe du silence.
—L'Express… (plus d'informations)