Elizabeth Nunez | |
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 Nunez in 2016 | |
| Born | 18 February 1944 Cocorite, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Died | 8 November 2024 (aged 80) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Marian College (BA) New York University (MA, PhD) |
| Genres | Novel, memoir |
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Elizabeth Nunez (18 February 1944 – 8 November 2024) was a Trinidadian-American novelist academic who was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, New York City.
Her novels have won a number of awards: Prospero's Daughter received The New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from Black Issues Book Review,[1] Bruised Hibiscus won the 2001 American Book Award,[2] and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award.[3]
In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Discretion;[1] Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award; and Anna In-Between was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence as well as a New York Times Editors' Choice, and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal.[4] Nunez is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby.[5]
- ^ a b "Hunter College Faculty Profile". Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ American Book Awards#2000 to 2009
- ^ "CUNY News". Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ "Elizabeth Nunez's Website".
- ^ Delgado, Anjanette. "New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 7 November 2020.