| 词条 | Elizabeth Nunez |
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| name = Elizabeth Nunez | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Elizabeth nunez 9285010.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = at 2016 Fall for the Book | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = professor | language = | nationality = American | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Marian College, New York University | period = | genres = novel, memoir | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }} Elizabeth Nunez is a Trinidadian American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY, New York City. Her novels have won a number of awards: Prospero's Daughter received the New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from Black Issues Book Review,[1] Bruised Hibiscus won the 2001 American Book Award,[2] and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award.[3] In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Discretion;[1] Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award; and Anna In-Between was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence as well as a New York Times Editors' Choice and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal.[4] BiographyEarly lifeAs early as nine-years of age Nunez began writing and won the first-place prize for the Tiny Tots writing contest in the Trinidad Guardian.[5] She emigrated from Trinidad to the United States after completing high school at the age of 19 in 1963.[1] Career overviewNunez arrived in the United States at age 19 to earn a BA in English from Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and a MA and PhD in Literature from New York University.[5] She began teaching at Medgar Evers College in 1972, a year after the college was established, and was instrumental in developing its writing curriculum.[5] Now, she is a distinguished professor at Hunter College and the author of eight novels as well as co-editor with Jennifer Sparrow of Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad, co-editor with Brenda Greene of the collection of essays Black Writers in the 90's, and author of several monographs of literary criticism.[1] In addition to developing her writing and teaching career, Nunez has developed programming to support other writers of color. She is the co-founder of the National Black Writers Conference,[6] which received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the Reed Foundation under her direction as its co-director from 1986-2000. Nunez also hosts a radio program on WBAI 99.5FM and chair of the PEN American Open Book Committee.[1] Nunez was also the Executive Producer of the 2004 NY Emmy-nominated CUNY TV series Black Writers in America.[1] Novels
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|title=Hunter College Faculty Profile|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/english/elizabeth-nunez/elizabeth-nunez|accessdate=26 April 2013}} 2. ^American Book Awards#2000 to 2009 3. ^{{cite web|title=CUNY News|url=http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/news.jsp?id=4558|accessdate=26 April 2013}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Elizabeth Nunez's Website|url=http://elizabethnunez.com/}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Voices from the Gap|url=http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/nunezElizabeth.php#bio|accessdate=26 April 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|first=Felicia R. |last=Lee |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/03/books/black-writers-warn-of-losing-the-momentum.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=Black Writers Warn of Losing The Momentum|work=New York Times|date=2000-04-03 |accessdate=11 June 2012}} External links{{Commons Category|Elizabeth Nunez}}
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