| 词条 | Helen Benedict |
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| name = Helen Benedict | image = Helen Benedict.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, novelist | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = University of Sussex | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} Helen Benedict is an American novelist and journalist, best known for her writings on social injustice and the Iraq War. BiographyBenedict was born in London, England, to parents who were American anthropologists.[1] As a child, she lived in Mauritius and Seychelles, where her parents conducted fieldwork. Seychelles became the setting for Benedict's novel, The Edge of Eden.[2] Her background as a child of anthropologists has informed her work both as a novelist and a journalist. Benedict grew up partly in London, partly in California, and attended university in both England and the United States. She worked for newspapers in both countries, and obtained her master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. She first began to publish in the United States that year and into the 1980s, with profiles of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag and New York writer Leonard Michaels, later collected in her anthology, Portraits in Print.[3] The anthology also contained Benedict's magazine profile of Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky,[4] Bernard Malamud and Paule Marshall. In 1981, Benedict moved to New York, where she freelanced for five years, publishing short stories and articles in literary journals, magazines and newspapers. She began teaching at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1986, where she is now a full-time professor. Benedict's works have been translated and published in Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Portugal. She has received fellowships from the Freedom Forum,[5] MacDowell,[6] Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy, The Ragdale Foundation, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,[7] and Yaddo.[8] ThemesBenedict's novels explore the themes of war, trauma, displacement, isolation, racism and sexism, often through the eyes of people who fall outside the predominant culture. She has written of Iraqi refugees and war veterans in her recent novels "Wolf Season" andSand Queen. Other subjects she has covered include: Dominican American immigrants, Greek peasants,[9] mixed-race teenagers, former convicts and the descendants of slaves.[10] Many of these themes are evident in her novel, The Edge of Eden,[11][12] which is set in 1960 in the colonial islands of Seychelles. Benedict's most recent and seventh novel, "Wolf Season, was published in 2017 by Bellevue Literary Press http://blpress.org/books/wolf-season/, won a starred review from The Library Journal (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5eBdZAYH6uyMjhIWU4tTUhyM3ZXdlllVW9nVmdWdGR5NHVz/view) and was listed as an editors recommended read by The Military Times, Literary Hub, Columbia Magazine, BookBrowse and elsewhere.(http://blpress.org/books/wolf-season/) Its predecessor, the novel, Sand Queen, was published in 2011 by Soho Press and in paperback in July 2012.[13] The Boston Globe praised the novel, calling it "'The Things They Carried for women in Iraq".[14] Robert Olen Butler wrote on its cover, "Every war eventually yields works of art which transcend politics and history and illuminate our shared humanity. Helen Benedict's brilliant new novel has done just that with this century's American war in Iraq. SAND QUEEN is an important book by one our finest literary artists." Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best of Our Knowledge featured an interview with Benedict about Sand Queen, calling it one of "this year's best new novels about war."[15] The material for "Wolf Season" and Sand Queen came from Benedict's research for her 2009 nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women in Iraq.[16] In The Lonely Soldier, Benedict describes the experiences of female troops fighting in the Iraq War and their abuse at the hands of their male comrades.[17] The Lonely Soldier received the Ken Book Award in 2009.[18] Benedict's writings on women at war inspired the award-winning 2012 documentary, The Invisible War,[19] and an ongoing lawsuit against the Pentagon on behalf of service members who were sexually assaulted in the military.[20] Benedict's nonfiction books have concentrated on the field of sexual assault and abuse of women. Her most influential nonfiction books have been The Lonely Soldier (Beacon Press, 2009) and Virgin or Vamp: How The Press Covers Sex Crimes, (Oxford University Press, 1992). A play Benedict wrote based on her interviews with women soldiers, The Lonely Soldier Monologues, was also produced in 2009, at two New York theaters, The Theater for the New City and La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, where it was reviewed by The New York Times.[21] An article Benedict wrote on the same subject, "The Private War of Women Soldiers,[22] " won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2008.[23] In 2010, her article "The Scandal of Military Rape"[16] won the EMMA Award for Exceptional Magazine Story.[24] For her writings on soldiers and war, Benedict was the 2013 Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century by Women's E-News.[25] Published worksFiction
Non fiction
Selected articles
Selected anthologies
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/emeritus/benedict/bio/index.html |title=Twelfth Emeritus Lecture Honoring Burton Benedict - Biographical Information |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |date=August 16, 2007 |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sohopress.com/new-books/the-edge-of-eden/ |title=The Edge of Eden by Helen Benedict |publisher=Web.archive.org |accessdate=3 November 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228010913/http://www.sohopress.com/new-books/the-edge-of-eden/ |archivedate=February 28, 2012 }} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-07226-7/ |title=Portraits in Print: A Collection of Profiles and the Stories Behind Them |publisher=Columbia University Press |date= |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/brodsky-bio.html |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987: Joseph Brodsky - Biography |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date= |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.freedomforum.org/|title=Freedom Forum Homepage|publisher=Freedomforum.org|accessdate=3 November 2014}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.macdowellcolony.org/|title=The MacDowell Colony|publisher=Macdowellcolony.org|accessdate=3 November 2014}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.vcca.com |title=Welcome | VCCA: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts |publisher=VCCA |date= |accessdate=2012-09-15}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.yaddo.org/|title=Yaddo Home|publisher=Yaddo.org|accessdate=3 November 2014}} 9. ^{{cite web|last=Carol |first=Joyce |url=http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/1581950241.asp |title=The Sailor's Wife by Helen Benedict |publisher=The Book Reporter Network |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/columbiajournalism/2009/11/03/helen-benedict |title=Helen Benedict, author, "The Edge of Eden" and Columbia J-school prof by ColumbiaJournalism |publisher=Blog Talk Radio |date=November 3, 2009 |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6704050.html |title=Fiction: Benedict, Helen. The Edge of Eden |publisher=Library Journal |date=November 1, 2009 |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 12. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219023058/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6698675.html?industryid=47159 |date=December 19, 2013 }} 13. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015035126/http://www.sohopress.com/soho-press/ |date=October 15, 2012 }} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2011/08/29/a_tale_of_two_women_in_iraq_a_civilian_and_a_soldier/|title=A tale of two women in Iraq: A civilian and a soldier|work=Boston.com|accessdate=3 November 2014}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://ttbook.org/book/writing-war-fiction|title=Writing War Fiction|work=To the best of our KNOWLEDGE|accessdate=3 November 2014}} 16. ^1 {{cite web|last=Benedict |first=Helen |url=http://www.msmagazine.com/Fall2008/TheScandalOfMilitaryRape.asp |title=The Scandal of Military Rape |work=Ms. Magazine |date=Fall 2008 |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 17. ^{{cite web|last=Stillman |first=Deanne |url=http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book13-2009may13,0,5349806.story |title=Book Review: 'The Lonely Soldier' by Helen Benedict |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=May 13, 2009 |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 18. ^{{cite press release|url=http://www.naminycmetro.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=1aXPMwO1%2BKY%3D&tabid=77 |title=KBA2010 Press Release |publisher=Naminycmetro.org |date= |accessdate=2012-07-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219023145/http://www.naminycmetro.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=1aXPMwO1+KY%3D&tabid=77 |archivedate=2013-12-19 |df= }} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://invisiblewarmovie.com|title=The Invisible War: Home|publisher=Invisiblewarmovie.com|accessdate=3 November 2014}} 20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/06/panetta-gates-rumsfeld-face-new-suit-over-u-s-military-rape-epidemic.html|title=Panetta, Gates, Rumsfeld Face New Suit Over U.S. Military Rape 'Epidemic'|work=The Daily Beast|accessdate=3 November 2014}} 21. ^{{cite web|last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |url=http://www.lonelysoldierplay.com/Lonely_Soldier_Monologues_NYTreview.html |title=The Feminine, Touched: War as Women's Work |work=The New York Times |date=March 10, 2009 |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 22. ^{{cite web|last=Benedict |first=Helen |url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/07/women_in_military/ |title=The private war of women soldiers |publisher=Salon |date=March 7, 2007 |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 23. ^{{cite web|url=http://filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu/aronson/index.html |title=Aronson Awards |publisher=Filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 24. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nwpc.org/events |title=Events: 2010 EMMAs Winners |publisher=National Women's Political Caucus |date= |accessdate=2012-07-22}} 25. ^{{cite web|url=http://womensenews.org/story/21-leaders-the-21st-century/121227/womens-enews-announces-21-leaders-the-21st-century-2013|title=Women's eNews Announces 21 Leaders for the 21st Century 2013 - Womens eNews|publisher=Womensenews.org|accessdate=3 November 2014}} External links
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