Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit ( b. 1961 ) is an American writer, journalist, essayist and cultural historian.

Life

Solnit has visited no public high schools, however, passed the necessary to study at the College Examination General Educational Development Test ( GED). At 17, she already went to Paris to study. Upon her return to California she made at the age of 20 years, a graduate of the San Francisco State University. At the University of California, Berkeley, she graduated in 1984 with a MA in journalism from. Since 1988 she is a freelance writer. In 2013 she published with "The Faraway Nearby " a very personal look back at how she takes leave of her mother with Alzheimer's disease and even after breast cancer, new starts. Rebecca Solnit lives in San Francisco.

Subjects of their work

Since the 1980s, Solnit has dealt with the problems of environmental protection and human rights issues. She fought in the 1990s for the right of the Western Shoshone on their own land in the deserts of Nevada and California. In the years since 2000, she was a fighter against the wars of the United States under the administration of George W. Bush. More of her subjects are natural disasters such as earthquakes and their consequences. For appearing in the U.S. bi-monthly magazine Utne Reader Solnit 2010 was one of 25 visionaries on earth that change through their writings on the impact of technologies on the spirit world and the art world.

On 25 June 2013, it published the article in TomDispatch.com Welcome to the ( Do not Be ) Evil Empire. Google Eats the World, the shortened on 5 July 2013 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in German language and slightly under the title Who holds on Google? appeared.

Honors and Awards

  • 2000: Guggenheim Fellowship.
  • Lennan Litarary Fellowship.
  • Two scholarships NEA Fellowship for Literature.
  • 2003: National Book Critics Circle Award for River of Shadows.
  • 2004: Mark Lynton History Prize for Riverof Shadows.
  • 2014: National Book Critics Circle Award, Faraway, Nearby, finalist.
  • 2014: National Book Award Faraway, Nearby nominated.

Publications

  • 2005: German: Hope in the dark: Infinite stories, wild possibilities. Translated v. Michael Mundhenk. Pendo, Munich / Zurich, ISBN 3-86612-059-1.
  • 2009: German: The art of losing oneself: A guide through the maze of life. Translated v. Michael Mundhenk. Piper, Munich, ISBN 978-3-86612-213-0.
  • 2014: German: From the near distance. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-455-50324-1
  • 2012: Anarchist worlds. Edited by Ilija Trojanov with: Frans de Waal, Vandana Shiva, Osvaldo Bayer and David Graeber. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-89401-764-4.
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