Jacqueline Woodson

**Jacqueline Amanda Woodson** (an haife ta a ranar 12 ga Fabrairu, 1963) marubuciya ce 'yar Amurka mai littattafai ga yara da matasa. An fi saninta da *Miracle's Boys*, da kuma lakabinta na Newbery Honor *Brown Girl Dreaming*, *After Tupac da D Foster*, *Feathers ,* da *Show Way* . Bayan ta yi aiki a matsayin Mawakiyar Matasa daga 2015 zuwa 2017,  an nada ta a matsayin Jakadiyar Ƙasa don Adabin Matasa, ta Laburare na Congress, daga 2018 zuwa 2019. Littafinta *mai suna Another Brooklyn* an zaɓe ta a matsayin wacce za ta lashe kyautar littattafai ta ƙasa ta 2016 don Fiction .  Ta karɓi kyautar tunawa da Astrid Lindgren a 2018  da kuma kyautar Hans Christian Andersen a 2020.  An naɗa ta a matsayin MacArthur Fellow a 2020. 

## Shekarun farko
An haifi Jacqueline Woodson a Columbus, Ohio, kuma tana zaune a Nelsonville, Ohio, kafin iyalinta su ƙaura zuwa kudu.  A lokacin ƙuruciyarta, ta zauna a Greenville, South Carolina, kafin ta koma Brooklyn tana da shekaru bakwai. Ta kuma faɗi inda take zaune a cikin tarihin rayuwarta, *Brown Girl Dreaming* .   Tun tana ƙarama, Woodson tana jin daɗin ba da labarai kuma koyaushe ta san tana son zama marubuciya.  Littattafan da ta fi so tun tana ƙarama sune " The Little Match Girl " na Hans Christian Andersen da *Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry* na Mildred D. Taylor . 

## Aikin rubutu

Bayan kammala karatu, Woodson ta tafi aiki a kamfanin Kirchoff/Wohlberg, wani kamfanin buga littattafai na yara. Ta taimaka wajen rubuta jarabawar karatu ta California kuma ta jawo hankalin Liza Pulitzer-Voges, wata wakiliyar littattafai ta yara a wannan kamfani. Duk da cewa haɗin gwiwar bai yi nasara ba, ya sa aka fitar da rubutun Woodson na farko daga cikin aljihu. Daga nan ta shiga ajin rubuta littattafan yara na Bunny Gable a The New School, inda Bebe Willoughby, edita a Delacorte, ya ji karatu daga Last Summer tare da Maizon kuma ya nemi rubutun. Delacorte ta sayi rubutun, amma Willoughby ta bar kamfanin kafin ta gyara shi, don haka Wendy Lamb ta karɓi ragamar kuma ta ga an buga littafin Woodson na farko.

### Wahayi
Woodson ta raba ƙuruciyarta tsakanin Kudancin Carolina da Brooklyn . A wata hira da Jennifer M. Brown, ta ba da labarin yadda "Kudancin ya kasance mai cike da wadata da kuma tafiya a hankali, kuma yana da alaƙa da al'umma sosai. Birnin yana da bunƙasa da sauri da kuma wutar lantarki. Brooklyn ta fi bambancin ra'ayi: a kan titin da na girma, akwai Jamusawa, mutane daga Jamhuriyar Dominican, mutane daga Puerto Rico, Baƙar fata 'yan Amurka daga Kudu, 'yan Caribbean-Amurka, da 'yan Asiya." 

Da aka tambaye ta ta ambaci tasirin adabinta a wata hira da 'yar jarida Hazel Rochman, Woodson ya amsa: "Manyan marubuta biyu a gare ni su ne James Baldwin da Virginia Hamilton . Abin ya bani mamaki da na gano cewa Virginia Hamilton 'yar'uwa ce kamar ni. Daga baya, Nikki Giovanni ta yi irin wannan tasiri a kaina. Ina jin cewa na koyi yadda ake rubutu daga Baldwin. Yana kan wasu abubuwa na gaba, yana rubutu game da launin fata da jinsi tun kafin mutane su ji daɗin waɗannan tattaunawar. Yana yawo a ko'ina, kuma kowanne daga cikin halayensa abin gaskatawa ne. Har yanzu ina sauke shi daga kan teburina lokacin da na ji kamar na makale."  Sauran tasirin farko sun haɗa da littafin Toni Morrison mai suna *The Bluest Eye* da *Sula*, da kuma aikin Rosa Guy, da kuma malamar Turanci ta makarantar sakandare, Mr. Miller.  An kuma sanya wa Louise Meriwether suna. 

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