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词条 Alba Arikha
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Bibliography

  5. References

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Alba Arikha (born 1966) is a French-born writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.

Early life

Brought up in Paris, her father was the Franco-Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha. Her mother is the American poet, Anne Atik.[1] Her sister, Noga Arikha, is a historian of ideas.[2]

Arikha received her BA from Hampshire College, and her MFA from Columbia University.

Career

Arikha has written five books. Her first two, Muse[3] and Walking on Ice,[4] were written under the name Alba Branca.

Arikha’s memoir Major/Minor[5] was published in 2011 by Quartet Books. Charting her artistic childhood in Paris, coupled with memories of her godfather, Samuel Beckett, the book was shortlisted for the Spear’s Awards[6] and selected by the New Yorker among the best books of 2012.[7] The paperback edition was published in 2017.

She wrote a narrative poem, ‘Soon,’ published by CB Editions in 2013[8] and turned into an opera, one of two projects Arikha collaborated on as librettist with her husband, composer Tom Smail.[9] It was performed in August 2013, at the Riverside Studios, in London.[8]

The second one, 'Blue Electric,' based on Major/Minor was performed in August 2018 at the Tête-à-Tête Opera festival at RADA,[10] and was directed by Hugh Hudson.

Her new novel, ‘Where to find me,’ was published by Alma Books in 2018,[11] and was selected among the best books of 2018 in the Evening Standard.[12]

Themes of identity and displacement remain central to her work.

Arikha is a regular contributor to Radio 4,[13] and was included in Pick of the Week.[14] Since 2012, she has been teaching creative writing for various institutions such as the Royal Academy of Art[15] and the Chocolate Factory[16] and has been involved with Guardian masterclasses,[17] since 2015, where she teaches classes on short fiction. In Spring 2017 she was Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University,[18] where she taught a masterclass in non-fiction.

In addition to her writing, Arikha is also a singer/songwriter and has performed in Paris and London. She has recorded two CD’s of songs, ‘Si j’ai aimé’[19] and ‘Dans les rues de Paris.’[20] She has also written a song based on the main character of her novel, ‘Where to find me.’

Since 2019, she has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, where she teaches creative writing.[21]

Personal life

Alba Arikha is married to the composer Tom Smail, and lives in London with her two children.[22]

Bibliography

Fiction:

  • Muse (1998)
  • Walking on Ice (2000)
  • Where to find me (2018)

Non-Fiction:

  • Major/Minor (2011)
  • Soon (2013)

Operas:

  • Soon (2013)
  • Blue Electric (2018)

Music:

  • Si j’ai aimé (2007)
  • Dans les rues de Paris (2011)
  • Where to find me (2018)

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/22/the-poet-upstairs/|title=The Poet Upstairs|last=Savas|first=Aysegul|date=2018-01-22|website=The Paris Review|access-date=2018-09-30}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.nogaarikha.com/|title=Noga Arikha - official web site - welcome|website=www.nogaarikha.com|access-date=2018-09-30}}
3. ^{{Cite book|title=Muse|last=results|first=search|date=1999-03-12|publisher=Pan Books|isbn=9780330352666|edition= New|location=London|id= {{ASIN|0330352660|country=uk}}}}
4. ^{{Cite book|title=Walking on Ice|last=results|first=search|date=2000-01-07|publisher=Pan Books|isbn=9780330352673|location=London|id= {{ASIN|0330352679|country=uk}}}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.quartetbooks.co.uk/shop/majorminor/|title=Quartet Books - Major/Minor|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.spearswms.com/spears-book-awards-2014/|title=Spear’s Book Awards 2014|date=2014-09-28|work=Spear's Magazine|access-date=2018-09-30}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/best-books-of-2012|title=Best Books of 2012|work=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-09-30}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbeditions.com/arikha.html|title=CB editions - publisher of new writing - Arikha|website=www.cbeditions.com|access-date=2018-09-30}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tomsmail.net|title=Tom Smail|website=www.tomsmail.net|access-date=2018-09-30}}
10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/blue-electric/|title=Blue Electric {{!}} Tête à Tête - The Future of Opera|work=Tête à Tête - The Future of Opera|access-date=2018-09-30}}
11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://almabooks.com/product/where-to-find-me/|title=Where to Find Me - Alma Books|work=Alma Books|access-date=2018-09-30}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/best-books-of-2018|title=Evening Standard Best Books of 2018|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
13. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06dyb7f|title=Alba Arikha, Reading Europe - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC|access-date=2018-09-30}}
14. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wsxtq|title=Cross-Channel Journal, Series 1, The Channel - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC|access-date=2018-09-30}}
15. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/hockney-the-portrait-short-story|title=The Portrait: a short story inspired by Hockney {{!}} Blog {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk|access-date=2018-09-30}}
16. ^{{Cite web|url=http://haringeyliteraturelive.com/writing-courses/|title=Writing Courses – Haringey Literature Live|website=haringeyliteraturelive.com|access-date=2018-09-30}}
17. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses|title=Guardian Masterclasses|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-09-30}}
18. ^{{Cite news|url=https://arts.columbia.edu/writing/faculty#adjunctwhere|title=Faculty & Staff|work=Columbia - School of the Arts|access-date=2018-09-30}}
19. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.albaarikha.com/music/si-jai-aime|title=Si j'ai aimé {{!}} Alba Arikha|website=www.albaarikha.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-09-30}}
20. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.albaarikha.com/music/dans-les-rues-de-paris|title=Dans les rues de Paris {{!}} Alba Arikha|website=www.albaarikha.com|access-date=2018-09-30}}
21. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.herts.ac.uk/study/schools-of-study/humanities/subject-areas/study-our-subjects-with/creative-writing|title=Creative writing|website=www.herts.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-02-06}}
22. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.albaarikha.com/home|title=Author, Pianist, Singer & Songwriter {{!}} Alba Arikha|website=www.albaarikha.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-10-01}}
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10 : 1966 births|Living people|French people of Israeli descent|French people of American descent|21st-century French women writers|20th-century French women writers|Writers from Paris|Hampshire College alumni|Columbia University alumni|French expatriates in the United Kingdom

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