Connie Briscoe

**Connie Briscoe** (an haife ta a ranar 31 ga Disamba, 1952) marubuciya ce 'yar Amurka a fannin labaran soyayya da na tarihi. Littafin Briscoe na farko, *<nowiki/>'Yan'uwa Mata da Masoya* (1994), ya sayar da kusan kwafi 500,000 a cikin zane da takarda a cikin shekaru biyu na farko.

Darryl Dickson-Carr ya siffanta Briscoe a matsayin "ɗaya daga cikin marubuta mafi kyau da za su fito a ciki kuma su amfana daga sha'awar da ake nunawa a cikin almarar Baƙar fata ta Amurka wadda ta taso a farkon shekarun 1990 bayan buga littafin Terry McMillan mai suna Waiting to Exhale (1992)."

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Connie Briscoe a Washington, DC, a ranar 31 ga Disamba, 1952.   An haife ta da matsalar ji saboda yanayin kwayoyin halitta kuma ta zama kurma sosai lokacin da take da shekaru talatin, kodayake ta ƙware a fannin karanta lebe.   Briscoe ta girma a yankin Silver Spring, Maryland ,. 

Ta halarci Jami'ar Hampton, ta kammala karatun digiri na farko a shekarar 1974, sannan ta kammala karatun digiri na biyu a fannin Gudanar da Jama'a a shekarar 1978.  

## Sana'a
Briscoe ta yi aiki a matsayin mai nazarin bincike daga 1976 zuwa 1980, sannan ta zama mataimakiyar edita a Cibiyar Nazarin Siyasa da Tattalin Arziki ta Haɗin gwiwa daga 1981 zuwa 1990.   Daga 1990 zuwa 1994, ta yi aiki a matsayin babban edita na *American Annals of the Deaf*, wata mujalla ta ilimi da Gallaudet University Press ta buga.  A lokacin da take Gallaudet, ta koyi Harshen Kurame na Amurka kuma ta nutse cikin al'adun kurame a karon farko.  Briscoe ta rubuta littafinta na farko, ' *Yan'uwa Mata da Masoya*, yayin da take aiki a Gallaudet; wannan labarin ya mayar da hankali ne kan abubuwan da suka faru na soyayya da 'yan'uwa mata baƙaƙe uku.   Bayan nasarar wannan littafin, ta koma aiki cikakken lokaci a matsayin marubuci.  An buga littafinta na biyu, *Big Girls Don't Cry*, a shekarar 1996, tare da labarin wata matashiya bakar fata 'yar matsakaicin matsayi da ta shiga duniyar kasuwanci a shekarun 1960 da 1970.  A shekarar 1996, Malcolm Jones Jr., marubuciya *a jaridar Newsweek,* ta rubuta cewa Briscoe tana ɗaya daga cikin marubuta da dama da ke rubutu a cikin "sabon nau'in adabi", wanda ke mai da hankali kan labarai masu daɗi game da mata bakar fata na zamani.  A shekarar 2022, a *Amurka Today* an sanya mata suna a cikin wani labarin mai taken *marubuta 100 na bakar fata da marubutan almara da ya kamata ku karanta, daga Abi Daré zuwa Zora Neale Hurston.*

## Ayyuka

* *<nowiki/>'Yan'uwa Mata da Masoya*, New York: Harper Collins, 1994  
* *Manyan 'Yan Mata Ba Sa Kuka*, New York: Harper Collins, 1996,  
* *Nisa Mai Nisa Daga Gida*, New York: Harper Collins, 1999,  
* *Gundumar PG*, Doubleday, New York, 2002,  
* *Ba zan iya samun isasshen ba*, New York: Doubleday, 2005,  
* *Kawai Za Ka Samu Inganci: Bikin Rayuwa Kowace Mataki*, New York: Kimani Press, 2007  
* *Kayan Ado: Mata Baƙaƙe 50 Masu Ban Mamaki Sama da Shekaru 50*, New York: Little Brown and Company, 2007  
* *<nowiki/>'Yan'uwa Mata da Mazaje*, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2009  
* *Kudi Ba Zai Sayi Soyayya Ba*, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2011,  
* *Ba ku taɓa sani ba,* New York: Harper Collins, 2023,  
* *Fitowa Daga: Salon Baƙin Amurkawa Masu Shekaru Hamsin Ba Tare Da Afuwa Ba,* New York: Clarkson Potter, 2023,  
* *Chloe,* New York: Harper Collins, 2025,  

## Kyaututtuka
A shekara ta 2000, Jami'ar Gallaudet ta karrama Briscoe da kyautar Amos Kendall, "wadda aka bai wa wani kurma domin ya yaba da ƙwarewarsa a fannin ƙwararru wanda ba shi da alaƙa da kurame".  Littafinta na uku, *A Long Way From Home*, an zaɓe shi don lambar yabo ta NAACP Image Awards . 

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