1983年获得者:美国黑人女作家艾丽斯·沃克艾丽斯·沃克(Alice Walker),1944年2月9日出生于美国南方佐治亚州的一个佃农家庭,父母的祖先是印第安奴隶,艾丽斯是家里八个孩子中最小的一个。艾丽斯8岁时,在和哥哥们玩“牛仔与印第安人”游戏时,被玩具枪射瞎了右眼。1961年,艾丽斯获奖学金入亚特兰大的斯帕尔曼大学学习,正赶上美国民权运动高涨时期,她随即投身于这场争取种族平等的政治运动中。1962年,艾丽斯·沃克被邀请到马丁·路德·金的家里做客。1963 1983 Winner: Afro-American author Alice Walker, born February 9, 1944 to a sharecropping family in southern Georgia, United States, whose parents were ancestors of Indian slaves, Alice Is the youngest of eight children in the family. When Alice was 8 years old, she was blinded by the toy gun while playing Cowboys and Indians with her brothers. In 1961, Alice was awarded a scholarship to study at Spalman University in Atlanta, catching up with the high civil rights movement in the United States. She immediately joined the political campaign for racial equality. In 1962 Alice Walker was invited to be guest at Martin Luther King’s home. 1963