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基斯-雷蒙
作家｜2022级
在正式的创造性的小说和非小说中见证了标志着黑人经验的无数形式的暴力。


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作家
工作单位
莱斯大学英语系
工作地点
休斯顿，德克萨斯州
年龄
获奖时为48岁
重点领域
小说和非小说写作
网站
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发表于2022年10月12日
关于Kiese的作品
Kiese Laymon是一位作家，见证了标志着黑人经验的无数种暴力形式。雷蒙的写作跨越流派，以激进的诚实和他作为一个南方黑人的视角为基础。他在自己的写作实践中，通过坦率的自我反思能力，体现了对修改的承诺。

雷蒙的前两本书--小说《漫长的分界线》和散文集《如何在美国慢慢杀死自己和他人》--最初于2013年出版。他分别于2020年和2021年出版了修订版，更充分地实现了他对作品的最初设想。Long Division》（2020年）混合了投机和科幻小说、神秘和一个关于两个南方黑人少年的成长故事的元素，他们都叫City，但来自不同的时间段（1985年和2013年）。莱蒙抓住了青少年说话的节奏和关注点--带有不确定性的直率和勇敢；琐碎的怨恨和幽默的迷恋--男孩们试图在家庭和敌对社会的期望下定义自己。在《如何在美国慢慢杀死自己和他人》（2021年）中，雷蒙对结构和形式进行了实验。这些文章包括一封写给他叔叔的信，一场由雷蒙主持的虚构的总统辩论，以及作者与四位黑人男性朋友之间的对话记录。他将对美国社会的尖锐评论与自我反省结合起来，特别是对他以前投资于有毒的男性气质的形式进行反思，这些形式延续了对黑人妇女的厌恶感。

在他的回忆录《沉重》（2018年）中，雷蒙探讨了创伤如何被内部化并折射为对自己身体或所爱之人的虐待。作为对他母亲的讲话，雷蒙在努力确保他作为一个黑人在当今美国获得成功所需的卓越表现时，努力解决她对他施加的情感和身体虐待。他坦诚地揭示了他与毒瘾、饮食失调和抑郁症的斗争，这些都困扰着他的青春期和成年早期。即使他承认对他造成的伤害，雷蒙也对自己的错误表示负责，并对那些伤害他的人表示宽恕和同情。雷蒙的作品代表了对真理、和解和爱在人际关系和整个社会中的潜力的强有力的沉思，从而产生了一个更加人性化的未来。

个人简历
Kiese Laymon在Oberlin学院获得学士学位（1998年），在印第安纳大学获得艺术硕士学位（2002年）。他曾是瓦萨学院和密西西比大学的教师，然后于2022年加入莱斯大学，担任英语和创意写作的Libbie Shearn Moody教授。他是密西西比州凯瑟琳-科尔曼文学艺术和正义倡议的创始人，他的文章曾出现在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《名利场》和ESPN.com等刊物上。

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在一个阳光明媚的日子里，一个穿着夹克、T恤和短裤的黑人男子微笑着坐在树荫下的长椅上


"重新审视和重新安排词语不仅需要词汇，还需要意志，也许还有勇气。修订后的词汇模式就是修订后的思维模式。修改后的思维模式塑造了记忆。我知道，看着所有这些词，记忆就在那里。我只需要重新排列、添加、减去、坐下和筛选，直到我找到释放记忆的方法"。



Kiese Laymon
Writer | Class of 2022
Bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in formally inventive fiction and nonfiction.


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Title
Writer
Affiliation
Department of English, Rice University
Location
Houston, Texas
Age
48 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Website
kieselaymon.com
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Social
Twitter
Published October 12, 2022
ABOUT KIESE’S WORK
Kiese Laymon is a writer bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience. Laymon’s writing across genres is grounded in radical honesty and his perspective as a Black Southern man. He exemplifies a commitment to revision in his writing practice and through his capacity for frank self-reflection.

Laymon’s first two books—the novel Long Division and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America—were originally published in 2013. He published revised editions in 2020 and 2021, respectively, that more fully realize his original visions for the works. Long Division (2020) mixes elements of speculative and science fiction, mystery, and a coming-of-age story about two Black Southern teenagers, both named City but from different time periods (1985 and 2013). Laymon captures the cadence and concerns of adolescent speech—the bluntness and bravura tinged with uncertainty; the petty grudges and humorous obsessions—as the boys attempt to define themselves against the expectations of family and a hostile society. In How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2021), Laymon experiments with structure and form. The essays include a letter to his uncle, a fictional presidential debate moderated by Laymon, and a transcript of a conversation between the author and four Black male friends. He marries pointed commentary on American society with self-examination, particularly of his former investment in forms of toxic masculinity that perpetuate misogynist treatment of Black women.

In his memoir, Heavy (2018), Laymon explores how trauma can be internalized and refracted as abuse revisited upon one’s own body or on the people one loves. Constructed as an address to his mother, Laymon grapples with the emotional and physical abuse she inflicted on him in her efforts to ensure he achieved the excellence necessary to succeed as a Black man in today’s America. And he reveals, with unflinching honesty, his struggles with addiction, eating disorders, and depression, which plagued his adolescence and early adulthood. Even as he acknowledges the harms done to him, Laymon expresses accountability for his own mistakes, as well as forgiveness and compassion for those who hurt him. Laymon’s work represents a powerful meditation on the potential for truth, reconciliation, and love—in interpersonal relationships and society as a whole—to engender a more humane future.

BIOGRAPHY
Kiese Laymon received a BA (1998) from Oberlin College and an MFA (2002) from Indiana University. He was a member of the faculty of Vassar College and the University of Mississippi prior to joining Rice University in 2022 as the Libbie Shearn Moody professor of English and Creative Writing. He is the founder of the Mississippi-based Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative, and his essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and ESPN.com, among other publications.

IN KIESE'S WORDS


A smiling black man wearing a jacket, t-shirt, and shorts sits on a bench under shade trees on a sunny day


”Revisiting and rearranging words didn't only require vocabulary; it required will, and maybe courage. Revised word patterns were revised thought patterns. Revised thought patterns shaped memory. I knew, looking at all those words, that memories were there. I just had to rearrange, add, subtract, sit, and sift until I found a way to free the memory.”