| 词条 | Wendy Law-Yone |
| 释义 |
| name = Wendy Law-Yone | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|4|1}}[1] | birth_place = Mandalay, Burma | occupation = writer | nationality = United States | spouse = John Randall | children = Jocelyn Seagrave, Sean Seagrave, Chad O'Connor, Bess O'Connor | relatives = Edward Law-Yone (father) }} Wendy Law-Yone ({{IPA-my|lɔ́ jòʊɴ}}; born 1947) is the critically acclaimed Burmese-born American author of A Daughter's Memoir of Burma (Columbia University Press, 2014), Golden Parasol (Chatto & Windus, 2013), The Road to Wanting (Chatto & Windus, 2010), Irrawaddy Tango (Knopf, 1994), and The Coffin Tree (Knopf, 1983). BiographyThe daughter of notable Burmese newspaper publisher, editor and politician Edward Michael Law-Yone,[2] Law-Yone was born in Mandalay but grew up in Rangoon.[2] Her background is diverse, with one grandfather a merchant from Yunnan and another a colonial officer from Great Britain.[3] Law-Yone states that she is "half Burman, a quarter Chinese and a quarter English".[5] Law-Yone has indicated that her father's imprisonment under the military regime limited her options in the country. She was barred from university, but not allowed to leave the country.[5] In 1967, an attempt to escape to Thailand failed and she was imprisoned, but managed to leave Burma as a stateless person.[4] She relocated to the United States in 1973, attending Eckerd College for comparative literature and modern languages before receiving a Carnegie Fellowship and settling in Washington, D.C. for thirty years.[5] In 1987, she was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Award for Creative Writing.[6] In 2002, she received a David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of East Anglia.[7] Her novel The Road to Wanting was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.[8] In 2015, she was Dürrenmatt guest professor at University Bern, Switzerland.[9] Law-Yone cites as a strong influence on her writing career her father's love of language, noting that his work as the founder of Burmese English-language newspaper The Nation was a daily factor in her childhood.[10] Selected bibliography{{Library resources box|by=yes|viaf=20983359}}
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Notes1. ^{{cite book|title=American ethnic writers|publisher=Salem Press|year=2008|pages=679|isbn=978-1-58765-464-0}} 2. ^{{cite book | last = Huang | first = Guiyou | title = The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 | publisher = Columbia University Press | year = 2006 | isbn = 0-231-12620-4 | page = 136}} 3. ^{{cite journal | title = SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research |url = http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/2.1%20pdf%20files/2.1%2012%20back%20matter.pdf | volume= 2 | issue= 1 | page = 5| date = Spring 2004 | ISSN=1479-8484 | publisher = School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | accessdate= 2008-10-12}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite journal | title = Beyond Rangoon: an interview with Wendy Law-Yone. | work = Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States | date = 2002-12-22 | accessdate = 2008-10-12 | url = http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10049175_ITM}} 5. ^1 Yoo and Ho, 283 6. ^http://arts.endow.gov/pub/NEA 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/hum/lit/awards/wong/formerfellows/wendy |title=Wendy Law-Yone, 2002 David T.K. Wong Fellow |accessdate=12 November 2008 |work= |publisher= University of East Anglia}} 8. ^Retrieved 22 March 2011. 9. ^(in German) Retrieved 22 March 2016. 10. ^Yoo and Ho, 286. Sources
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