Книжная премия Бруклинской публичной библиотеки

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Книжная премия Бруклинской публичной библиотеки - ежегодная награда за выдающиеся произведения документальной и художественной литературы.

Премия была учреждена в 2015 году Brooklyn Eagles, группой молодых и увлеченных жителей Бруклина, которые не только постоянно посещают Бруклинскую публичную библиотеку (BPL), но и работают над привлечением новых посетителей, продвижением библиотеки как культурного центра и созданием активного сообщества вокруг ресурсов, которые предлагает библиотека.
Первоначально премия называлась "Литературной премией Бруклинской публичной библиотеки", позже стала называться "Книжной премией Бруклинской публичной библиотеки".

Награда присуждается Бруклинская публичная библиотека в сотрудничестве с Brooklyn Eagles.

Лауреатов выбирают библиотекари и сотрудники библиотек, которые опираются на свои обширные знания литературы и многих групп населения, которых они обслуживают.

Победители получают приз в размере 5000 долларов США во время церемонии награждения, организованной Brooklyn Eagles — 2 ноября. Премия щедро финансируется Фондом Пека Стакпула (Peck Stacpoole Foundation).

Другие названия: Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Жанры: Зарубежная литература, Документальная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 2016 г. Последнее вручение: 2023 г. Официальный сайт: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-book-prize

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Художественная литература
The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction

Документальная литература
The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Nonfiction

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Biography of X

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When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, betrayals, and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification.

A masterfully constructed literary adventure complete with original images assembled by X’s widow, Biography of X follows a grieving wife seeking to understand the woman who enthralled her. CM traces X’s peripatetic trajectory over decades, from Europe to the ruins of America's divided territories, and through her collaborations and feuds with everyone from Bowie and Waits to Sontag and Acker. And when she finally understands the scope of X’s defining artistic project, CM realizes her wife’s deceptions were far crueler than she imagined.

Pulsing with suspense and intellect while blending nonfiction and fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art, and love. In her most ambitious novel yet, Catherine Lacey, one of our most acclaimed literary innovators, pushes her craft to its highest level, introducing us to an unforgettable character who, in her tantalizing mystery, shows us the fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.

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Hijab Butch Blues

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A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir.

When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher--her female teacher--she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can't yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don't matter, and it's easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: when Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Could Maryam, uninterested in men, be . . . like Lamya?

From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharoah; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own--ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant.

This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya's childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one's own life.