John Updike akaberekerwa mu Pennsylvania, United States in 1932.
Kana iwe waifanirwa kutsanangura basa rake nemitsara mishoma, zvaizonzi ndiyo fresco huru yeAmerican middle class.
Kuvandudza vakapinda mumukurumbira Harvard University kwaakapedza kudzidza muLiterature muna 1954. Panguva iyoyo akatanga kubatana nemagazini, zvakare ine mukurumbira, yezvinyorwa (pamwe iri rakakurumbira ramagazini ezvinyorwa) New Yorker; uye kubva ipapo kusvika nhasi aramba achishandira pamwe nekutsoropodza uye zvinyorwa mune izvo zvinyorwa.
Bhuku rake rekutanga rakaburitswa muna 1958 uye, zvinoshamisa, raive rekuunganidzwa kwenhetembo, nepo zhinji rebasa rake rakazotevera rave ngano pfupi uye nano.
Kuvandudza Iye murume ane hunhu uye akarangwa, anonyora mazuva ese uye anodhinda (kana kuyedza kutsikisa) bhuku rimwe chete pagore, kugadzirwa kwake kuri makumi mashanu mavhoriyamu.
Asi mabhuku ake akabudirira kwazvo ndeaya akatanga muna 1960 neinovhero Mhanya tsuro uye vakaenderera mberi nezvikamu zvakati wandei zvine hunhu hwe Harry Rabbit Angstrom semunhu mukuru.
Tsuro akapfuma muna 1980, uye Tsuro anozorora muna 1990 vakapedza trilogy, uye vakahwina iye mibairo miviri Pulitzer. Asi kunze kweiyo Pulitzer, Kuvandudza Akakunda mimwe mibairo yepamusoro kusanganisira iyo National Book Critics Circle Award, iyo PEN-Faulkner Award yeFiction, uye Rea Mubairo weiyo Pfupi Nhau.
Kana paine chinhu chakafanana ichocho mabhuku ese e Kuvandudza ndeyekuti mavari kunyatso kudzidza kweiyo North American kirasi yepakati inoitwa. (Iyo yepakati kirasi iyo inodya zvisingavaki varaidzo asi zvakare inoshandisa (uye inogadzira) hunyanzvi zviitiko senge Blues, John coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Faulkner o Sam shepard).
Iko kutaridzika kwe Kuvandudza nezve izvi zvisikwa zvinokanganisa pakati pekushoropodza kusanzwisisika uye nekunzwisisa kwakasimba kwemurume ari mumugwagwa, wehondo yake yezuva nezuva, basa rake, mhuri yake, mukadzi wake, vana vake, chinamato, bonde ...
Sezvatakataura, John Updike Akave ari munyori ane ruzivo rwakakura kwazvo, asi kune hunhu uhu hunofanira kuwedzerwa hwakanakisa hunotsigirwa panguva yemabasa ake. Chii chinosiyanisa Kuvandudza Iwo haasi maviri kana matatu akakwirira mapoinzi (iyo Tsuro akateedzana) ebasa rake, asi runyorwa rurefu rwemabhuku, ese aine hunoshamisa hwekunyora hunhu.
Kubva pane irwo runyorwa rurefu rwemabasa atinogona kutaura Chikoro cheMimhanzi, Centaur, Bhuku raBech, Hove yehuni, Iyo Asylum Fair, Vakaroora, Kudzoka kwetsuro, Kubatana, Kusvika kumahombekombe, Varoyi veEastwick, Roger's Version, Runako rwemaruva y Gorofu zviroto, pakati pevamwe.
Mabasa ake ese anofamba mumunda wechokwadi, izvo hazvishamise kuve munyori weAmerica (imwe sarudzo yaive kutya).
Hupenyu hwake hwepachivande hwave hwakanyarara uye husina kukwana: anga akaroora kaviri uye ave nevana vana.
Bhuku rekupedzisira raakaburitsa rinonzi Gandanga, bhuku rinotaura nezvenyaya yekurwiswa kwemagandanga kubva mumaonero emudiki wechiArab akazvarwa uye akakurira mukati United States.
John Updike Ane makore makumi manomwe nematanhatu, uye anoramba achinyora ...