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Joan Didion eBooks Joan Didion is an American author who was born in 1934 in Sacramento, California. She began writing as a child, and was an avid reader from a young age. Her family moved frequently through her childhood, something she would discuss in her memoir, 2003’s Where I Was From. After graduating from University of California, Berkeley, she won a job at Vogue magazine. During her two years at the magazine, she wrote her first novel, Run, River, which would be published in 1963. Five years later, having returned to California, she published a collection of non-fiction magazine pieces as Slouching Towards Bethlehem. She continued to write fiction, with Play It As It Lays published in 1970 and A Book of Common Prayer published in 1977. Another collection of non-fiction, The White Album, was published in 1979. Additional non-fiction books included After Henry, published in 1992, and Miami, published in 1987. After her husband’s death, she began work on The Year of Magical Thinking, which would be published in 2006. She has since adapted the book for the stage. The book also earned a National Book Award for Nonfiction. Didion has received additional awards, including the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the Evelyn F. Burkey Award from the Writers Guild of America. Didion continues to write, with her most recent book being Blue Nights, a memoir published in 2011 that deals with the subject of aging.
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Američka književnica Joan Didion rođena je 5. prosinca 1934. godine u Sacramentu u Kaliforniji. Visoku je naobrazbu stekla na kalifornijskom Sveučilištu Berkley, potom odlazi u New York i zapošljava se kao copywriter za magazin Vogue te Istodobno za isti, ali i za druge časopise poput Esquirea, Saturday Evening Posta, National Reviewa, The New York Times Magazinea i The New York Times Book Reviewa, piše eseje i osvrte o američkoj politici, medijima, popularnoj kulturi, feminizmu, kao i kolumne o privatnom životu. Godine 1963. izdaje svoj prvi roman Run River (Rijeka bijega) u kojem kroz naizgled zamornu priču o prevari i propalom braku te ironično pripovijeda o povijesti Kalifornije. Premda se roman slabo prodavao, nekoliko dobrih kritika donijelo joj je novi ugovor s izdavačkom kućom. Zajedno sa suprugom Johnom Dunneom, književnikom i novinarom magazina Time, piše osobnije članke i priključuje se generaciji koja stvara takozvano Novo novinarstvo, a koja se povezivala s književnicima Normanom Mailerom, Tomom Wolfeom, Hunterom Thompsonom i Gayem Taleseom. Didion i Dunne pišu scenaristički prvijenac za film iz 1971. – Panic in Needle Park – u kojem je jednu od svojih prvih uloga odigrao Al Pacino. Krajem 2003. godine, nakon povratka iz posjete bolesnoj kćerki, John Dunne umire od srčanog udara. Joan Didion njegova smrt teško pada te piše The Year of Magical Thinking zbirku duboko osobnih eseja u kojima korak po korak prolazi bolno razdoblje nakon smrti muža. The Year of Magical Thinking nije samo priča o ponovnom početku i osovljavanju na noge, nego i hommage izvanrednom braku. Međutim, neposredno prije nego što se knjiga pojavila na policama, umire joj kćerka. Didion je za The Year of Magical Thinking 2005. godine nagrađena američkom Nacionalnom književnom nagradom u kategoriji nefikcionalne proze. Dvije je godine kasnije od Nacionalne zaklade za knjigu primila medalju za izniman doprinos američkoj književnosti.