Jennifer Clement is the President of PEN International and the first woman to be elected since the organization was founded in 1921. Clement grew up in Mexico City, Mexico. She studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and also studied French Literature in Paris, France. She has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine.
From 2009 to 2012, Clement was president of PEN Mexico and her work focused on the disappearance and killing of journalists. Human rights issues have motivated her writing. In 2014 she was awarded the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for her novel Prayers for the Stolen that involved over ten years of research on the stealing of young girls in Mexico.
Clement is the author four novels Gun Love, Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies and The Poison That Fascinates. She also wrote the acclaimed memoir Widow Basquiat (on the painter Jean Michel Basquiat and New York City in the early 1980s). Clement is also the author of several books of poetry: The Next Stranger (with an introduction by W.S. Merwin); Newton’s Sailor; Lady of the Broom and Jennifer Clement: New and Selected Poems. Her prize-winning story, “A Salamander-Child” is published as an art book with work by the Mexican painter Gustavo Monroy. Clement’s books have been translated into 24 languages.
Prayers for the Stolen was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Book, First Selection for National Reading Group Month’s Great Group Reads and appeared internationally on many “Best Books of the Year” lists, including that of The Irish Times. The novel was awarded France’s Grand Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE, The Sara Curry Humanitarian Award and was finalist for 2015′s PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Other honours include the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Fellowship for Literature in 2012, the UK’s Canongate Prize, a Santa Maddalena Fellowship, the MacDowell Colony’s Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship and, due to her humanitarian work, Clement was awarded a City of Asylum Residency in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Her novel A True Story Based on Lies was an Orange Prize finalist and Prayers for the Stolen was a Prix Femina finalist in France. She is a member of Mexico’s prestigious “Sistema Nacional de Creadores.”
Several of Clement’s works have been adapted for the stage. Her novel on the mistreatment of servants in Mexico, A True Story Based on Lies, was staged in France by the Traits de Marque Company and in Mexico by The National Theatre of Mexico and adapted by Ximena Escalante. Ados Teatro in Spain is currently adapting Prayers for the Stolen for the stage and the BBC is creating a 5-episode radio play of Prayers for the Stolen with an adaptation by Jeff Young.
Twenty-two years ago, Jennifer Clement and her sister, Barbara Sibley, founded The San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
A haunting story of love and survival that introduces an unforgettable literary heroine
Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny and smart. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to seek opportunities elsewhere. Here in the shadow of the drug war, bodies turn up on the outskirts of the village to be taken back to the earth by scorpions and snakes. School is held sporadically, when a volunteer can be coerced away from the big city for a semester. In Guerrero the drug lords are kings, and mothers disguise their daughters as sons, or when that fails they “make them ugly” – cropping their hair, blackening their teeth- anything to protect them from the rapacious grasp of the cartels. And when the black SUVs roll through town, Ladydi and her friends burrow into holes in their backyards like animals, tucked safely out of sight.
While her mother waits in vain for her husband’s return, Ladydi and her friends dream of a future that holds more promise than mere survival, finding humor, solidarity and fun in the face of so much tragedy. When Ladydi is offered work as a nanny for a wealthy family in Acapulco, she seizes the chance, and finds her first taste of love with a young caretaker there. But when a local murder tied to the cartel implicates a friend, Ladydi’s future takes a dark turn. Despite the odds against her, this spirited heroine’s resilience and resolve bring hope to otherwise heartbreaking conditions.
An illuminating and affecting portrait of women in rural Mexico, and a stunning exploration of the hidden consequences of an unjust war, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN is an unforgettable story of friendship, family, and determination
發表於2024-10-31
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評分前兩天收到瞭豆瓣寄來的《兔子洞女孩》這本書,雖然過程有些小麯摺,但最終還是收到瞭。這本書小小的,比一般的書看起來要小上一圈,很方便攜帶。 書的封麵上畫著一個色彩艷麗的蠍子,我想大約是蠍子吧,就像書中反復提到那樣。蠍子的尾巴上勾勒齣一個少女的臉龐,書的封皮有些...
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這是以Jennifer Clement的自身經歷寫齣來的作品,置身於安全亞洲長大的人可能很難理解故事中的荒謬,但這些荒謬又真實地發生在地球上
評分非常動人
評分以自述的口吻,講述一個墨西哥女孩在安全和自由都沒有保障的環境裏,渴望追求自由和美麗的故事。父親對傢庭的不負責任,母親的無奈和堅持。尤其是母親舉手投足,講話的語氣,給年輕的Ladydi潛移默化的影響,感同身受。
評分這是以Jennifer Clement的自身經歷寫齣來的作品,置身於安全亞洲長大的人可能很難理解故事中的荒謬,但這些荒謬又真實地發生在地球上
評分以自述的口吻,講述一個墨西哥女孩在安全和自由都沒有保障的環境裏,渴望追求自由和美麗的故事。父親對傢庭的不負責任,母親的無奈和堅持。尤其是母親舉手投足,講話的語氣,給年輕的Ladydi潛移默化的影響,感同身受。
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