Sherman Alexie
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Sherman J. Alexie Jr. was born on October 7, 1966. His mother was Spokane Indian and his father was Coeur d'Alene Indian. Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He decided to attend high school off the reservation where he knew he would get a better education. He visa mer was the only Indian at the school, and excelled academically as well as in sports. After high school, he attended Gonzaga University for two years before transferring to Washington State University, where he graduated with a degree in American studies. He received the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship in 1991 and the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1992. His collections of poetry included The Business of Fancydancing, First Indian on the Moon, The Summer of Black Widows, One Stick Song, and Face. His first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. His other short story collections included The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians, and War Dances. His first novel, Reservation Blues, received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize. His other novels included Indian Killer, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and Flight. He won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2018 for You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir. Alexie and Jim Boyd, a Colville Indian, collaborated on the album Reservation Blues, which contains the songs from the book of the same name. In 1997, Alexie collaborated with Chris Eyre, a Cheyenne/Arapaho Indian, on a film project inspired by Alexie's work, This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, from the short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Smoke Signals debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1998, winning two awards: the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy. In 1999 the film received a Christopher Award. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Sherman Alexie
The Toughest Indian in the World (Short Story), What You Pawn I Will Redeem (Short Story) 12 exemplar
What You Pawn I Will Redeem [short story] 8 exemplar
Ghost Dance [Short Story] 4 exemplar
Salmon Boy 3 exemplar
Distances [short story] 3 exemplar
Indian Education 2 exemplar
The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb 2 exemplar
Superman and Me 1 exemplar
Salt (short story) 1 exemplar
20+1 short stories: Une anthologie des meilleures nouvelles de Terres d'Amériques (A.M. TER.AMER.) (French Edition) (2016) 1 exemplar
“Captivity” 1 exemplar
Three Poems 1 exemplar
Sherman Alexie class 1 exemplar
Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest 1 exemplar
The Toughest Indian in the World (in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD) 1 exemplar
Fire with Fire 1 exemplar
Breaking and Entering (short story) 1 exemplar
Junior Polatkin's Wild West Show 1 exemplar
Happy trails 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 857 exemplar
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 504 exemplar
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 252 exemplar
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 168 exemplar
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 138 exemplar
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 121 exemplar
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures (2006) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 59 exemplar
Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 52 exemplar
Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (Modern Library Paperbacks) (1838) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Hebbes 4 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Alexie, Sherman Joseph, Jr.
- Födelsedag
- 1966-10-07
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Spokane, Washington, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Spokane Indian Reservation, Wellpinit, Washington, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Utbildning
- Gonzaga University
Washington State University - Yrken
- writer
lecturer
songwriter
stage performer - Relationer
- Tomhave, Diane (wife)
- Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship (1991)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1992)
World Heavyweight Poetry Bout Champion (1998-2001)
Washington State University Distinguished Alumni Award (1994)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
The Stranger Genius Award (2008) (visa alla 12)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2007)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (2010)
American Book Award (1996)
National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (2007)
Odyssey Award (2008)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2010)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
November 2017: Sherman Alexie i Monthly Author Reads (oktober 2021)
(M101'12) The Business of Fancydancing, Sherman Alexie i World Reading Circle (januari 2013)
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