Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk
	Herman Wouk di Palm Springs, 2014
Lahir	27 Mei 1915; New York, New York
Meninggal	17 Mei 2019 (umur 103)
Pekerjaan	Pengarang
Kebangsaan	Amerika Serikat
Periode	1941–2019
Karya terkenal	Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Caine Mutiny, This is My God
Pasangan	Betty Sarah Brown (m. 1945; meninggal 2011)
Anak	Abraham Wouk (1946–1951); Iolanthe Woulff; Joseph Wouk
Kerabat	Victor Wouk (adik)
Situs web
	www.hermanwouk.com

Herman Wouk (/woʊk/; 27 Mei 1915 - 17 Mei 2019) merupakan seorang pengarang asal Amerika. Novel The Caine Mutiny yang dikarangnya tahun 1951 memenangkan Penghargaan Pulitzer untuk karangan Fiksi. Karangan novel lainnya seperti The Winds of War dan War and Remembrance, novel tentang sejarah Perang Dunia II, dan novel non-fiksi This Is My God, penjelasan tentang penganut Yahudi dari sudut pandang Ortodoks Kekinian, yang ditulis untuk orang Yahudi dan non-Yahudi. Buku-bukunya telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 27 bahasa.^[1]^[1] Sejarawan, novelis, penerbit, dan kritikus berkumpul di Perpustakaan Kongres Amerika Serikat tahun 1995 untuk memperingati ulang tahunnya ke-80 dan menggambarkan Herman sebagai seorang Tolstoy asal Amerika.^[2]

Buku terbaru Wouk, yang katanya akan menjadi yang terakhir,^[3] adalah sebuah memoar yang berjudul Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author, yang dirilis pada Januari 2016 untuk menandai ulang tahun ke-100.^[4]^[5]"^[3]

Penghargaan

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1952
Columbia University Medal for Excellence, 1952
Alexander Hamilton Medal, 1980
University of California, Berkeley Medal, 1984
Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, 1986
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation Lone Sailor Award, 1987
Bar-Ilan University Guardian of Zion Award, 1998
University of California, San Diego UCSD Medal, 1998
Jewish Book Council Lifetime Literary Achievement Award, 1999
Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction (inaugural), 2008

Karya yang diterbitkan

The Man in the Trench Coat (1941, play)
Aurora Dawn (1947)
City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder (1948)
The Traitor (1949 play)
The Caine Mutiny (1951)
A Modern Primitive (1952, unpublished play)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1953, play)
Marjorie Morningstar (1955)
Slattery's Hurricane (1956)
The "Lomokome" Papers (written in 1949, published in 1956)
Nature's Way (1957, play)
This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life (1959, revised ed. 1973, non-fiksi)
Youngblood Hawke (1961)
Don't Stop the Carnival (1965)
The Winds of War (1971)
War and Remembrance (1978)
Inside, Outside (1985)
The Hope (1993)
The Glory (1994)
The Will to Live On: This is Our Heritage (2000, non-fiksi)
A Hole in Texas (2004)
The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion (2010, non-fiksi)
The Lawgiver (2012)
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year Old Author (2015, non-fiksi)

Referensi

^ ^a ^b Fessier, Bruce (May 26, 2015). "Herman Wouk, dean of historical novelists, turns 100". The Desert Sun. Diakses tanggal August 5, 2015.
^ Ringle, Ken (May 16, 1995). "FICTION'S TRUEST VOICE". The Washington Post. Diakses tanggal August 5, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Schaub, Michael (December 29, 2015). "'Sailor And Fiddler' Is A Lovely Coda To A Literary Career". NPR. Diakses tanggal January 14, 2016.
^ Falcone, Dana Rose (May 22, 2015). "Herman Wouk to release memoir in honor of 100th birthday". Entertainment Weekly. Diakses tanggal August 4, 2015.
^ Dirda, Michael (January 6, 2016). "At 100, Herman Wouk re-emerges with a memoir, 'Sailor and Fiddler'". The Washington Post. Diakses tanggal January 7, 2016.

Bacaan lanjutan

Barbara A. Paulson, ed., The Historical Novel: A Celebration of the Achievements of Herman Wouk (1999)
Arnold Beichman, Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian (1984)
Laurence W. Mazzeno, Herman Wouk (1994)

Pranala luar

"Books: The Wouk Mutiny", Time Magazine cover story, September 5, 1955 Diarsipkan 2013-05-21 di Wayback Machine.
Columbia 250: Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk Papers
Herman Wouk di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
Profile Diarsipkan 2016-03-04 di Wayback Machine., betweenthecovers.com
Interview, CBS News Sunday Morning

[birthday-1] Fessier, Bruce (May 26, 2015). "Herman Wouk, dean of historical novelists, turns 100". The Desert Sun. Diakses tanggal August 5, 2015.

[tolstoy-2] Ringle, Ken (May 16, 1995). "FICTION'S TRUEST VOICE". The Washington Post. Diakses tanggal August 5, 2015.

[schaub-3] Schaub, Michael (December 29, 2015). "'Sailor And Fiddler' Is A Lovely Coda To A Literary Career". NPR. Diakses tanggal January 14, 2016.

[centenary-4] Falcone, Dana Rose (May 22, 2015). "Herman Wouk to release memoir in honor of 100th birthday". Entertainment Weekly. Diakses tanggal August 4, 2015.

[dirda-5] Dirda, Michael (January 6, 2016). "At 100, Herman Wouk re-emerges with a memoir, 'Sailor and Fiddler'". The Washington Post. Diakses tanggal January 7, 2016.

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