Namwali serpell

(an haife shi a shekarar 1980) Y kasance marubuci ɗan kasarAmurka ne kuma ɗan Zambiya [1]wanda ke koyarwa a Amurka. A watan Afrilun 2014, an ba ta suna a cikin jerin sunayen marubuta 39 na Afirka kudu da hamadar Saharar ’yan kasa da shekara 40 a jerin Hay Festival na Afirka.[2]Takaitaccen labarinta "The Sack" ta lashe kyautar Caine na 2015 don almara na Afirka a Turanci. A cikin 2020, Serpell ta ci lambar Belles-lettres Grand Prix na Ƙungiyoyin Adabi na 2019 don littafinta na halarta na farko The Old Drift.[3]

‘’’Tarihin rayuwa’’’

An haifi Serpell a cikin 1980 a Lusaka, Zambia[4], ga Robert Serpell da matarsa, Namposya Nampanya Serpell.[5]. Mahaifinta dan kasar Zambia dan kasar Burtaniya, farfesa ne a fannin ilimin halin dan Adam a Jami'ar Zambiya, kuma mahaifiyarta kwararre ne a fannin tattalin arziki.[6]Lokacin da ta kai shekara tara, danginta sun ƙaura zuwa Baltimore, Maryland, a Amurka,[7] inda Serpell ya sami ilimi. Ta kammala karatun digirinta na farko a fannin adabi a Yale da digirinta na uku (PhD) a cikin adabin Amurka da Burtaniya a Harvard. Serpell ya zama ɗan ƙasar Amurka a cikin 2017.[8]

’’Sana’a

Serpell farfesa ne a Turanci a Jami'ar Harvard.[9] Daga 2008 zuwa 2020, ta kasance farfesa a Turanci a Jami'ar California, [10]Berkeley.Tana zama a Amurka kuma tana ziyartar Lusaka kowace shekara.[11]

Gajeren labari na Serpell "Muzungu" an tantance shi a cikin 2010 don kyautar Caine, lambar yabo na shekara-shekara don gajerun almara na Afirka a cikin Turanci. A cikin 2011, ta sami lambar yabo ta Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, kyauta ga farkon marubutan mata.[6] Labarinta mai suna "The Sack" ta lashe kyautar Caine a shekara ta 2015. Tana cewa "fiction ba wasa ne mai gasa ba", Serpell ta sanar da cewa za ta raba kyautar $15,000 tare da sauran marubutan da aka zaba, Masande Ntshanga, F. T. Kola, Elnathan John, da Segun Afolabi. [10] Serpell shi ne dan wasan Caine na farko daga Zambia.[11] "Buhun" na take, a cewar Serpell, ya samo asali ne daga mafarki mai ban tsoro da ta yi a 17, "kuma ban sani ba idan ina cikin ciki ko waje". Har ila yau, yana da tasirin siyasa: "Ina nazarin almara na Amirka da Birtaniya, kuma [wani dalibi mai digiri] yana nazarin almara na zamani na Afirka, kuma ka'idarta ita ce duk lokacin da kuka ga buhu a cikin wallafe-wallafen Afirka, yana da wani boye-boye game da transatlantic. fataucin bayi

A cikin 2014, Serpell ya buga Hanyoyi Bakwai na Rashin tabbas, [12] wani aiki mai mahimmanci wanda ke nazarin "dangantaka tsakanin iyawar wallafe-wallafe don warwarewa, ruɗani, da ruɗar da mu, da ƙimar ɗabi'ar wallafe-wallafe".[13] Mujallar Novel: A Forum on Fiction ta kira littafin "aiki bravura"[Serpell mai ba da gudummawa ce ga sabbin ƴan matan Afirka na 2019, wanda Margaret Busby ta shirya.[15] Serpell's "Akan Baƙar Wahala: Toni Morrison da Farin Ciki" ya lashe lambar yabo ta 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces.[16]

An buga littafin novel na farko na Serpell, The Old Drift, a cikin 2019. Da take bitar shi a cikin The Guardian, Nadifa Mohamed ta rubuta: "Namwali Serpell's first novel is a rambunctious epic that bise the intertwined history of three places over three generations. ...Serpell is an Marubuci mai buri da hazaka, tare da chutzpah don yin aiki a kan babban zane."[17] Binciken mai lura ya ƙare, "A ƙarshe, an saita a nan gaba kaɗan wanda ya ƙunshi sabon na'urar dijital da aka saka a cikin fatar mai amfani, mun fahimci yadda Serpell ke da wayo. yana gwada tunaninmu, kafin wata dabara ta minti na ƙarshe ta karkatar da mu don tambayar dalilin da ya sa ba ma ɗaukar almarar kimiyya a matsayin hanyar da za ta dace da babban littafin tarihin Afirka."[18].

A cikin Tsohon Drift , Serpell yayi gwaje-gwaje tare da nau'ikan labari daban-daban don taimakawa masu karatu su kalli labarin ta fuskoki daban-daban. Annalisa Quinn ta NPR ta kira salon labarun Serpell "florid, amma wuce haddi yakan zo tare da ma'ana. Waɗannan su ne hanyoyi guda uku da mutane suke tunani game da sararin samaniya: A matsayin wani abu mai fahimta da tsinkaya, a matsayin hanyar da za a yi amfani da ita, kuma a matsayin tushen kyau da ban mamaki. Har ila yau, za ku fahimci cewa wuce gona da iri, zabi ne na sanin yakamata[19].

A cikin Maris 2020, Serpell ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin marubuta takwas da suka sami lambar yabo ta Windham – Campbell Literature Prize, ɗayan mafi kyawun kyaututtukan adabi na duniya, ana ba su kowace shekara, tare da kowane mai nasara yana karɓar $ 165,000.[20][21] An karrama ta ne da almara. Sauran wadanda suka yi nasara sune Yiyun Li; Maria Tumarkin da Anne Boyer don rashin almara; Bhanu Kapil da Jonah Mixon-Webster don waƙa; da Julia Cho da Aleshea Harris don wasan kwaikwayo.[21] Serpell ya ce, "Na yi matukar farin ciki da samun wannan lambar yabo, kuma na sami karramawa da shiga kamfanin wadannan manyan marubuta. Kyautar Windham-Campbell ta nuna bambamta a wajen bikin rubuce-rubuce a Afirka bisa ga nasarar da ta samu a fannin adabi, abin farin ciki ne matuka da aka dauka. da gaske a matsayin mai zane."[22].

Serpell ya lashe lambar yabo ta 2020 Anisfield-Wolf a cikin rukunin almara don The Old Drift.[23] A ranar 23 ga Satumba 2020, an ba da sanarwar cewa Tsohon Drift shima ya ci lambar yabo ta Arthur C. Clarke, babbar lambar yabo ta Burtaniya don almarar kimiyya.[24][25][26] Serpell ta mayar da martani a shafin Twitter a ranar 25 ga watan Satumba cewa ta samu labarin kyautar "a cikin sa'a guda da jin cewa ba a tuhumi 'yan sandan da suka kashe Breonna Taylor ba. Don girmama Breonna da kuma ci gaba da yaki da tashe-tashen hankula da gwamnati ta amince da su, na ba da gudummawa. Kuɗin kyautar £2020 don belin masu zanga-zangar, [27] tana bayyana dalilinta na nuna haɗin kai a cikin wata hira da BBC: "Na yi ƙoƙarin gano yadda zan amince da wannan karramawar da wannan kyautar ta bayar. zuwa ga labari na da kuma jin cewa juyin juya halin siyasar da nake kwatantawa a cikin littafin yana nan tafe… Littafina ba daidai ba ne na annabci kawai Kuma wannan al'ada, ina so in ce, ita ce inda almara na kimiyya wani karfi ne wanda zai ba mu damar bincika ainihin tambayoyin siyasa game da daidaito da mulki da adalci." [27] [28].

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  2. http://www.hayfestival.com/artistlist-q-t.aspx
  3. GPLA 7TH Edition: Winners Announced", Bamenda Online, 29 July 2020.
  4. Murua, James (12 October 2022). "Book Digest: Namwali Serpell, Abdourahman Waberi, Touhfat Mouhtare, Ebony Ladelle". Writing Africa. Retrieved 11 May 2024
  5. Sharing the Earth: An International Environmental Justice Reader. University of Georgia Press. 15 June 2015. pp. 161–. ISBN 978-0-8203-4770-7.
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  7. Eastaugh, Sophie (8 July 2015). "Things to know about Caine Prize winner Namwali Serpell". CNN. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  8. "The Zambian-American Perspective: An Interview with Namwali Serpell". The Wheeler Column. 1 May 2020.
  9. "Namwali Serpell". faculty.harvard.edu. Retrieved 31 January 2021
  10. "About". Namwali Serpell. Retrieved 31 January2021.
  11. Dwyer, Colin (8 July 2015). "Caine Prize Winner: Literature Is Not A Competitive Sport". NPR. Retrieved 10 July 2015.