【美国人物志】格温多琳．布鲁克斯(11/11)

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        格温多林。布鲁克斯(1917-2000)，第一位获得普利策文学奖的非洲裔美国诗人。她一生中创作了大量的诗歌，出版了二十多部诗集，是全世界著名的用诗歌的语言来增强人们对美国黑人文化的了解的人。
       
        Hints:
        Gwendolyn Brooks
        African-American
        Mizz Brooks
        South Side
Gwendolyn Brooks influenced many African-American writers. Friends say her prize-winning works also helped other black Americans to develop their own sense of identity and culture.
Doctors discovered Mizz Brooks had cancer in November, Two-Thousand. She died December Third at her home in Chicago. She was eighty-three.
The funeral service was held on the South Side, the same area of the city that had been a window for much of Mizz Brooks's poetry. The service was at times filled with laughter. There were warm remembrances of a woman whose life and words had touched people forever. African drums sounded and dancers leaped.格温多林.布鲁克斯影响了许多非洲裔美国作家。朋友们说，她的获奖作品也帮助其他黑人认同他们自己的身份和文化。2000年11月，医生发现布鲁克斯女士患有癌症，她于当年12月在芝加哥的家中去逝，享年八十三岁。葬礼在芝加哥南部举行，这个地方已经成为了解布鲁克斯女士诗歌的一扇窗户，举行葬礼时，到处都是笑声，这位用她的一生和她的诗歌永远感动别人的女士给我们带来了温暖的回忆。葬礼中敲起了非洲鼓乐，跳起了非洲舞蹈。