• Source: Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk (; 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. 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.
Buku terbaru Wouk, yang katanya akan menjadi yang terakhir, 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."




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A Modern Primitive (1952, unpublished play)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






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

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