Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead
	Colson Whitehead di Festival Buku Texas 2009
Lahir	Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead; 06 November 1969 (umur 55); New York City, New York, Amerika Serikat
Pekerjaan	Penulis
Kebangsaan	Amerika Serikat
Pendidikan	Universitas Harvard
Genre	Fiksi, non-fiksi
Karya terkenal	The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Zone One, The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys
Penghargaan	National Book Award for Fiction (2016) ; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017 dan 2020)
Website
	colsonwhitehead.com

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (lahir 6 November 1969) adalah seorang novelis Amerika Serikat. Ia adalah pengarang tujuh novel, yang meliputi karya debutnya tahun 1999, The Intuitionist, dan The Underground Railroad (2016), yang membuatnya memenangkan National Book Award for Fiction 2016 dan Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. Ia kembali memenangkan Pulitzer Prize for Fiction pada 2020 untuk The Nickel Boys.^[1]^[2] Ia juga menerbitkan dua buku non-fiksi. Pada 2002, ia meraih MacArthur Genius Grant.

Referensi

^ "2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Nominees". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2017. Diakses tanggal April 10, 2017.
^ "2020 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020. Diakses tanggal May 4, 2020.

Fain, Kimberly. Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Kelly, Adam. "Freedom to Struggle: The Ironies of Colson Whitehead". Open Library of the Humanities (October 2018).
Maus, Derek C. Understanding Colson Whitehead, revised and expanded edition. University of South Carolina Press, 2021.