Agate Nesaule

Agate Nesaule
A smiling young white woman, hair in a ponytail
Agate Nesaule, from the 1956 yearbook of Shortridge High School
BornJanuary 23, 1938
Nītaure, Latvia
DiedJune 29, 2022
Madison, Wisconsin
Other namesAgate Nesaule Krouse
Occupation(s)Writer, college professor
Notable workWoman in Amber (1995)
AwardsAmerican Book Award (1996)

Agate Nesaule (January 23, 1938 – June 29, 2022) was a Latvian-born American writer and professor of English on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. Her 1995 memoir A Woman in Amber won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1996.[1]

Early life and education

Nesaule was born in Nītaure,[2] Latvia, as the daughter of Peteris V. Nesaule and Valda Nesaule.[3] Her father was a Lutheran minister; her mother earned a Ph.D in her seventies.[4][5] As a little girl, Nesaule fled the wartime upheaval with her family, and spent time as a child prisoner in Germany during World War II. The family lived in a displaced persons camp, and moved to the United States in 1950, when she was 12 years old.[6]

Nesaule attended Shortridge High School,[7] and won a statewide Latin competition in Indiana; the prize was a four-year scholarship to Indiana University Bloomington.[8][9] She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree at Indiana, and completed doctoral studies in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[5] Her dissertation was titled "The Feminism of Doris Lessing" (1972).

Career

Nesaule was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater from 1963 to 1996. She and Ruth Schauer founded the school's women's studies program in 1972. Her memoir A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile (1995)[10] won the American Book Award in 1996.[5][11] She also published two novels, and academic articles.[12]

In 1998, Nesaule was an invited guest when President Bill Clinton signed the agreement required to allow Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to join NATO.[13] In 2019, she wrote in an essay, "I have lived in the United States for 70 years. I am an American citizen in love with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I am immensely grateful for all that this country has given me, yet I feel I do not really belong here."[14]

Publications

  • "A Doris Lessing Checklist" (1973)[15]
  • "Women and Crime: Sexism in Allingham, Sayers, and Christie" (1974, with Margot Peters)[16]
  • "Why Women Kill" (1975, with Margot Peters)[17]
  • "Doris Lessing's Feminist Plays" (1976)[18]
  • "Murder in Academe" (1977, with Margot Peters)[19]
  • "What Happened to Aspazija? In Search of Feminism in Latvia" (1993)[20]
  • A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile (1995)[21]
  • In Love with Jerzy Kosinski: A Novel (2010)[22]
  • "Feminism and Art in Fay Weldon's Novels" (2013)[23]
  • Lost Midsummers: A Novel of Women's Friendship in Exile (2019)
  • "Exile is irreversible" (2019)[14]

Personal life

Nesaule married a fellow English professor, Harry Krouse. They had a son, Boris. They divorced. She died in Madison, Wisconsin in 2022, at the age of 84.[5]

References

  1. ^ Holt, Patricia (1996-07-14). "Award Winners Reflect Diversity". The San Francisco Examiner. pp. 216, 225. Retrieved 2023-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Mūžībā devusies rakstniece, profesore Agate Nesaule" (in Latvian). Delfi. 3 July 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Nesaule, Valda (death notice)". The Indianapolis Star. 1978-12-15. p. 64. Retrieved 2023-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Rev. Peteris V. Nesaule, 88, founder, minister of Latvian Lutheran Church". The Indianapolis Star. 1996-09-21. p. 47. Retrieved 2023-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c d "In Memoriam: Agate Nesaule, 1938-2022". Women In Academia Report. 2022-07-20. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  6. ^ Jirgens, Karl E. (2006). "Labyrinths of Meaning in Aleksandrs Pelecis' Siberia Book and Agate Nesaul's Woman in Amber: A Postmodern/Postcolonial Reading". In Kelertas, Violeta (ed.). Baltic Postcolonialism. Rodopi. p. 360. ISBN 978-90-420-1959-1.
  7. ^ Shortridge High School, Annual (1956 yearbook): 129. via Ancestry
  8. ^ "Agate Nesaule Obituary (2022) - Madison, Wisconsin - Madison.com". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  9. ^ "Isadore Feibleman Scholarship Students Enter Collegiate Life". The Indianapolis Star. 1956-09-16. p. 69. Retrieved 2023-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Levine, Miriam (1995-12-17). "In the prison of memory". The Boston Globe. p. 219. Retrieved 2023-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Verdins, Karlis (2021-04-03). "History, trauma, and narrative perspective in A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule". Journal of Baltic Studies. 52 (2): 179–191. doi:10.1080/01629778.2020.1850486. ISSN 0162-9778. S2CID 229509911.
  12. ^ Moe, Doug (2009-05-01). "A lifetime of writer's block lifted". Wisconsin State Journal. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Martell, Chris (1998-01-24). "From Exile to Welcome". Wisconsin State Journal. p. 21. Retrieved 2023-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ a b Nesaule, Agate (August 28, 2019). "Agate Nesaule: Exile is irreversible". The Cap Times. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  15. ^ Krouse, Agate Nesaule (1973). "A Doris Lessing Checklist". Contemporary Literature. 14 (4): 590–597. doi:10.2307/1207476. ISSN 0010-7484. JSTOR 1207476.
  16. ^ Peters, Margot; Krouse, Agate Nesaule (1974). "Women and Crime: Sexism in Allingham, Sayers, and Christie". Southwest Review. 59 (2): 144–152. ISSN 0038-4712. JSTOR 43468591.
  17. ^ Krouse, Agate Nesaule; Peters, Margot (1975-06-01). "Why Women Kill". Journal of Communication. 25 (2): 98–105. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1975.tb00584.x. ISSN 0021-9916. PMID 1123461.
  18. ^ Krouse, Agate Nesaule (1976-11-01). "Doris lessing's feminist plays". World Literature Written in English. 15 (2): 305–322. doi:10.1080/17449857608588411. ISSN 0093-1705.
  19. ^ Krouse, Agate Nesaule; Peters, Margot (1977). "Murder in Academe". Southwest Review. 62 (4): 371–378. ISSN 0038-4712. JSTOR 43469001.
  20. ^ Nesaule, Agate (1992-10-01). "What happened to Aspazija? In search of feminism in Latvia". Hecate. 18 (2): 112–126.
  21. ^ Nesaule, Agate (1997). A woman in amber : healing the trauma of war and exile. New York: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-026190-7. OCLC 36163412.
  22. ^ Nesaule, Agate (2009). In love with Jerzy Kosinski : a novel. Madison, Wis.: Terrace Books. ISBN 978-0-299-23133-0. OCLC 379424994.
  23. ^ Krouse, Agate Nesaule (1978-12-01). "Feminism and Art in Fay Weldon's Novels". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 20 (2): 5–20. doi:10.1080/00111619.1978.10690187. ISSN 0011-1619.

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