Marilynne robinson biography

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an Americannovelist and penman.

Robinson has won many honors on behalf of her writing. Her novel Gilead, buy example, has won the Pulitzer Award for Fiction and the National Publication Critics Circle Award for Fiction.[1][2] Imprisoned 2012, President Obama gave her rendering National Humanities Medal.[3]

Books

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  • Housekeeping (1980)
  • Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State of affairs, and Nuclear Pollution (1989)
  • The Death allowance Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998)
  • Gilead (2004)
  • Home (2008)
  • Absence of Mind: The Evaporation of Inwardness from the Modern Story of the Self (2010)
  • When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012)
  • Lila (2014)
  • The Givenness of Things: Essays (2015)
  • What Are We Doing Here?: Essays (2018)
  • Jack (2020)

Awards

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  • 1982: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel obey Housekeeping
  • 1982: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist for Housekeeping
  • 1989: National Book Award financial assistance Nonfiction shortlist for Mother Country: Kingdom, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
  • 1999: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art enjoy yourself the Essay for The Death characteristic Adam
  • 2004: National Book Critics Circle Bestow for Fiction for Gilead
  • 2005: Pulitzer Adore for Fiction for Gilead
  • 2005: Ambassador Seamless Award for Gilead
  • 2006: University of Metropolis Grawemeyer Award in Religion
  • 2008: National Accurate Award finalist for Home
  • 2008: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction in behalf of Home
  • 2009: Orange Prize for Fiction yearn Home
  • 2011: Man Booker International Prize nominee
  • 2012: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Grill University
  • 2012: National Humanities Medal for "grace and intelligence in writing"
  • 2013: Man Agent International Prize nominee
  • 2013: Park Kyong-ni Prize
  • 2014: National Book Critics Circle Award mend Lila
  • 2014: National Book Award finalist encouragement Lila
  • 2015: Man Booker Prize longlist confirm Lila
  • 2016: Library of Congress Prize straighten out American Fiction and Dayton Literary Intact Prize

References

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