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Jesmyn Ward amerikai regényíró, a Tulane Egyetem angol professzora, ahol Andrew W. Mellon bölcsészprofesszori címet kapott. Elnyerte a 2011-es National Book Award for Fiction Awardot második regényéért, a Salvage the Bones-ért, és elnyerte a National Book Award for Fiction díjat 2017-ben Sing, Unburied, Sing című regényéért. 2012-ben Alex-díjat is kapott a családi szeretetről és a közösségről szóló történetéért a Katrina hurrikánnal szemben. Ő az egyetlen nő és egyetlen afroamerikai, aki kétszer nyerte el a National Book Award for Fiction díjat. Ward mindhárom regénye "Bois Sauvage" fiktív mississippi városában játszódik. Wikipedia  

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Jesmyn Ward: Idézetek angolul

“So I kept pulling my punches. And later I realised that was a mistake. Life doesn’t spare the kind of people who I write about, so I felt like it would be dishonest to spare my characters in that way.”

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Forrás: On how she “protected” her characters in her first novel Where the Line Bleeds in “Jesmyn Ward: ‘Black girls are silenced, misunderstood and underestimated'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/11/jesmyn-ward-home-mississippi-living-with-addiction-poverty-racism in The Guardian (2018 May 11)

“Place is important to my writing; I believe that if a reader gets a clear picture of the place where a character is from, then they can understand what motivates the character, what limits him or her…”

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Forrás: On using the setting to frame her novels in “Jesmyn Ward: ‘So much of life is pain and sorrow and wilful ignorance’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/12/jesmyn-ward-sing-unburied-sing-interview-meet-author in The Guardian (2017 Nov 12)

“What mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It’s tiring.”

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Forrás: On having a pessimistic nature in “Jesmyn Ward: ‘So much of life is pain and sorrow and wilful ignorance’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/12/jesmyn-ward-sing-unburied-sing-interview-meet-author in The Guardian (2017 Nov 12)

“The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum — because of slavery.”

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Forrás: On using mythology in her works in “INTERVIEWS: Powell's Interview: Jesmyn Ward, Author of 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'” https://www.powells.com/post/interviews/powells-interview-jesmyn-ward-author-of-sing-unburied-sing in Powell City of Books (2017 Aug 29)