Geraldine Brooks (marubuci)

Geraldine Brooks AO (an haife ta a ranar 14 ga Satumba, 1955) 'yar jarida ce kuma marubuciya ' yar asalin ƙasar Ostiraliya . Ta lashe kyautar Pulitzer Prize for Fiction saboda littafinta na Maris, 2005.

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Geraldine Brooks a ranar 14 ga Satumba, 1955 a Sydney .  Brooks ta girma a unguwar Ashfield da ke Sydney. Mahaifinta, Lawrie Brooks, mawakiya ce 'yar Amurka mai manyan mawaka, wacce ta zama mataimakin edita a jaridu. Mahaifiyarta, Gloria, daga Boorowa, jami'ar hulda da jama'a ce da gidan rediyo mai karfin 2GB a Sydney. 

Brooks ta halarci Kwalejin Bethlehem, makarantar sakandare ta Katolika ta 'yan mata, sannan ta halarci Jami'ar Sydney . Bayan kammala karatunta, ta zama 'yar jarida a jaridar The Sydney Morning Herald, kuma bayan ta lashe kyautar tallafin karatu na Greg Shackleton Memorial, ta koma Amurka, inda ta kammala digiri na biyu a Makarantar Digiri na Biyu ta Jarida ta Jami'ar Columbia da ke birnin New York a shekarar 1983. 

A shekarar 1984, a ƙauyen Tourrettes-sur-Loup da ke Kudancin Faransa, ta auri ɗan jaridar Amurka Tony Horwitz kuma ta koma addinin Yahudanci . 

 Sana'a 
A matsayinta na wakiliyar ƙasashen waje ga Jaridar Wall Street Journal, Brooks ta yi rahoto kan rikice-rikicen da ke faruwa a Afirka, ƙasashen Balkan, da Gabas ta Tsakiya. Labarun da suka fito daga Tekun Farisa da ita da Tony Horwitz suka bayar a shekarar 1990 sun sami lambar yabo ta Hal Boyle ta ƙungiyar 'yan jarida ta ƙasashen waje don mafi kyawun rahotannin jaridu ko ayyukan waya daga ƙasashen waje. 

Littafin Brooks na farko, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), wanda ya dogara ne akan abubuwan da ta fuskanta a tsakanin mata Musulmi a Gabas ta Tsakiya, ya kasance littafin da aka fi sayarwa a duniya.  An fassara shi zuwa harsuna 17.

Littafinta mai suna Foreign Correspondence (1997), wanda ya lashe kyautar adabi ta Nita Kibble don rubutun mata, wani abin tunawa ne da kuma kasada ta tafiye-tafiye game da lokacin yarinta da abokan alkalami daga ko'ina cikin duniya suka wadata, da kuma burinta na neman su. 

Littafinta na farko, Shekarar Al'ajabi (2001), ya zama littafin da aka fi sayarwa a duniya. An kafa shi a shekarar 1666, labarin ya nuna gwagwarmayar da wata matashiya ta yi don ceton 'yan uwanta mazauna ƙauyen da kuma ranta lokacin da annobar bulonic ta afka wa ƙaramin ƙauyenta na Derbyshire na Eyam ba zato ba tsammani. 

Littafinta na gaba, Maris (2005), ya samo asali ne daga littafin Louisa May Alcott mai suna Little Women, wanda ya rubuta tarihin hidimar lokacin yaƙi ga "mahaifinsa da ba ya nan" na 'yan matan Maris. Wasu daga cikin ɓangarorin wannan tarihin sun samo asali ne daga rayuwa da rubuce-rubucen falsafa na mahaifin Alcott, Amos Bronson Alcott, wanda ta bayyana a ƙarƙashin taken "Orpheus at the Plough" a cikin fitowar 10 ga Janairu 2005 ta The New Yorker, wata guda kafin a buga Maris . Littafin da ke da alaƙa da juna ya sami martani iri-iri daga masu suka. An zaɓe shi a watan Disamba 2005 ta The Washington Post a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun ayyukan almara guda biyar da aka buga a wannan shekarar kuma a watan Afrilu 2006 ya lashe kyautar Pulitzer don Almara . 

Daga 2005 zuwa 2006, ta kasance ma'aikaciya a Cibiyar Radcliffe ta Harvard . 

A cikin littafinta mai suna People of the Book (2008), Brooks ta binciko wani labari mai ban mamaki game da Sarajevo Haggadah . Wannan labari ya samo asali ne daga rahotanninta (ga The New Yorker ) na labaran da suka shafi ɗan adam da suka taso bayan wargajewar Yugoslavia daga 1991 zuwa 1995. Littafin ya lashe kyautar Littafin Shekara ta Australiya da kuma kyautar Littafin Shekara ta Adabi a 2008.

Littafinta na Caleb's Crossing na shekarar 2011 ya samo asali ne daga rayuwar Caleb Cheeshahteaumack, wani ɗan Wampanoag da ya musulunta zuwa addinin Kirista wanda shi ne ɗan asalin ƙasar Amurka na farko da ya kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Harvard a ƙarni na sha bakwai.

Brooks, bisa gayyatar Kamfanin Watsa Labarai na Ostiraliya, ya gabatar da jerin Lakcocin Boyer na 2011. Daga nan aka buga su a matsayin The Idea of Home.  

Littafin Sirri (2015) wani labari ne na tarihi wanda ya dogara ne akan rayuwar Sarki Dauda na Littafi Mai Tsarki a Zamanin ƙarfe na Biyu . 

A shekarar 2016, Brooks ya ziyarci Isra'ila a matsayin wani ɓangare na wani aiki na Breaking the Silence don rubuta wani kasida don littafi kan mamayar Isra'ila, don bikin cika shekaru 50 da Yaƙin Kwanaki Shida .   Michael Chabon da Ayelet Waldman ne suka shirya littafin, kuma an buga shi a ƙarƙashin taken Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation a watan Yunin 2017. 

A shekarar 2022, Brooks ya buga littafin Horse, wani labari na tarihi wanda aka gina shi da dokin tsere Lexington . Littafin ya kasance mafi kyawun siyarwa <i id="mwtA">a jaridar New York Times</i> .  Ya lashe kyautar Anisfield-Wolf Book Award ta 2023 don Almara. 

An ba Brooks kyautar Laburare na Congress don American Fiction a shekarar 2025.  name="LOC"> A shekarar 2025, Brooks ta yi aiki tare da Kamala Harris a kan littafin tarihin siyasa mai suna 107 Days .

 Ganewa 

 1996: Kyautar Ƙungiyar 'Yan Jarida ta Ƙasashen Waje don mafi kyawun labaran Yaƙin Gulf. 
 2006: Kyautar Pulitzer don Almara na Maris 
 2008: Littafin Almara na Shekara na Ƙungiyar Mawallafa ta Australiya ga Mutanen Littafi 
 2009: Kyautar Helmerich 
 2010: Kyautar Zaman Lafiya ta Adabi ta Dayton Kyautar Nasara ta Rayuwa 
 2016: Jami'in Order of Australia a bikin karramawa na ranar Australia 
 2023: Kyautar Almara ta Lambobin yabo na Indie Book Awards ga Doki 
 2023: Kyautar Littafin Anisfield-Wolf don Almara "Geraldine Brooks, Saeed Jones win Anisfield-Wolf prize". Associated Press News. 4 April 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
 2025: Kyautar Laburare ta Majalisa don Almarar Amurka "Geraldine Brooks". Library of Congress. Retrieved 20 September 2025.

 Ayyuka 

 Labarai 
Shekara Lakabi Mai Bugawa ISBN OCLC 2001 Shekarar Abubuwan Al'ajabi Gidaje na Huɗu   2005 Maris Harper Perennial   2008 Mutanen Littafi Penguin na Viking   2011 Ketarewar Caleb Mawallafan HarperCollins na Ostiraliya   2015 Sirrin Maƙallin Hachette Ostiraliya   2022 Doki Kamfanin Viking Press  

 Labarai na Almara 






 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Yayin da take riƙe da takardar shaidar zama ɗan ƙasar Australiya, Brooks ta zama ɗan ƙasar Amurka a shekara ta 2002.  Tana da 'ya'ya maza biyu tare da mijinta Tony Horwitz, wanda ya mutu a shekara ta 2019.  Ɗanta Nathaniel Horwitz ya kafa Hunterbrook da Mayday Health tare. 

 Manazarta 

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