Naomi Shihab Nye

 

Naomi Shihab Nye

Biography:

 She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1952 (born March 12, 1952) a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and American mother. Although she regards herself as a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home. 

She was born to a Palestinian father which was a Palestinian refugee and American mother which is her mother an American of German and Swiss descent. She Nye spent her adolescence in both Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas. Her experience of both cultural difference and different cultures has influenced much of her work , Although she regards herself as a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home. She says a visit to her grandmother in the village of Sinjil was a life-changing experience. She was the recipient of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.

Awards and recognition:

Nye has won many awards and fellowships, among them four Pushcart Prizes, the Jane Addams Children's Book award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and many notable book and best book citations from the American Library Association, and a 2,000 Witter Bynner Fellowship.[1] In June 2009, Nye was named as one of PeaceByPeace.com's first peace heroes.[2]
In October 2012, she was named laureate of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature.[3] The NSK Prize is a $25,000 juried award sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today magazine. In her nominating statement, Ibtisam Barakat, the juror who championed Nye for the award wrote, “Naomi’s incandescent humanity and voice can change the world, or someone’s world, by taking a position not one word less beautiful than an exquisite poem.” Barakat also commended her work by saying, “Naomi’s poetry masterfully blends music, images, colors, languages, and insights into poems that ache like a shore pacing in ebb and flow, expecting the arrival of meaning

Published works:

Poetry:

  • Different Ways to Pray: Poems. Breitenbush Publications. 1980. ISBN 978-0-932576-04-0.
  • Hugging the Jukebox. Dutton. 1982. ISBN 978-0-525-47703-7.
  • Yellow Glove. Breitenbush Books. 1986. ISBN 978-0-932576-41-5.
  • Red Suitcase: Poems. Consortium Book Sales & Dist. 1994. ISBN 978-1-880238-14-1.
  • Fuel: poems. BOA Editions, Ltd. 1998. ISBN 978-1-880238-63-9.
  • 19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East. HarperCollins. 2002. ISBN 978-0-06-009766-0.
  • You & yours: poems. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2005. ISBN 978-1-929918-69-0.
  • A Maze Me: Poems for Girls. Greenwillow Books. 2005. ISBN 978-0060581893
  • Honeybee: poems & short prose. Greenwillow Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0060853907
  • Tender Spot: Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-85224-791-1

Novels:

Short Stories:

Discography:

  • Rutabaga-Roo - I've Got A Song And It's For You (Flying Cat - 1979)

Editor:

  • Naomi Shihab Nye, ed. (1996). This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World. Aladdin Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-689-80630-8.
  • Naomi Shihab Nye, Ashley Bryan, ed. (2000). Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-688-16193-4.

Critical studies:

  • Gómez-Vega, Ibis. "The Art of Telling Stornoyies in the Poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye." MELUS 26.4 (Winter 2001): 245-252.
  • Gómez-Vega, Ibis. "Extreme Realities: Naomi Shihab Nye's Essays and Poems." Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 30 (2010): 109-133.
  • Mercer, Lorraine, and Linda Strom. "Counter Narratives: Cooking Up Stories of Love and Loss in Naomi Shihab Nye's Poetry and Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent." MELUS 32.4 (Winter 2007):
  • Orfalea, Gregory. "Doomed by Our Blood to Care: The Poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye." Paintbrush 18.35 (Spring 1991): 56-66.

Forewords:

  • Clack, Cary, (2009). Clowns and Rats Scare Me. Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595340375
  • Stafford, William, (2014). The Osage Orange Tree. Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595341846 



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