Louise Erdrich
Författare till The Round House
Om författaren
Karen Louise Erdrich was born on June 7, 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where both of her parents were employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Erdrich graduated from Dartmouth College in 1976 visa mer with an AB degree, and she received a Master of Arts in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. Erdrich published a number of poems and short stories from 1978 to 1982. In 1981 she married author and anthropologist Michael Dorris, and together they published The World's Greatest Fisherman, which won the Nelson Algren Award in 1982. In 1984 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Love Medicine, which is an expansion of a story that she had co-written with Dorris. Love Medicine was also awarded the Virginia McCormick Scully Prize (1984), the Sue Kaufman Prize (1985) and the Los Angeles Times Award for best novel (1985). In addition to her prose, Erdrich has written several volumes of poetry, a textbook, children's books, and short stories and essays for popular magazines. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for professional excellence, including the National Magazine Fiction Award in 1983 and a first-prize O. Henry Award in 1987. Erdrich has also received the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, the Western Literacy Association Award, the 1999 World Fantasy Award, and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2006. In 2007 she refused to accept an honorary doctorate from the University of North Dakota in protest of its use of the "Fighting Sioux" name and logo. Erdrich's novel The Round House made the New York Times bestseller list in 2013. Her other New York Times bestsellers include Future Home of the Living God (2017). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Serier
Verk av Louise Erdrich
The Flower {short story} 6 exemplar
The Years of My Birth 4 exemplar
Le Mooz 2 exemplar
Erdrich, Louise Archive 2 exemplar
The Plague of Doves [short story] 1 exemplar
“I Was Sleeping When the Black Oaks Move” 1 exemplar
ERD El último informe del padre Damien 1 exemplar
The Hollow Children 1 exemplar
Knives 1 exemplar
A Wedge of Shade 1 exemplar
הבית העגול 1 exemplar
Sentence, The 1 exemplar
“Grief” 1 exemplar
The Leap 1 exemplar
“Dear John Wayne” 1 exemplar
Saint Marie 1 exemplar
The Stone 1 exemplar
Commemorative 1 exemplar
Tracks / Love Medicine / The Painted Drum 1 exemplar
Matchimanito 1 exemplar
Snares 1 exemplar
WHERE'S THE ERDRICH????? 1 exemplar
Old Man Potchikoo [short story] 1 exemplar
Scales {short story} 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 915 exemplar
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 558 exemplar
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 548 exemplar
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 504 exemplar
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Inledning — 377 exemplar
Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 325 exemplar
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 252 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 249 exemplar
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 182 exemplar
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 164 exemplar
Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 140 exemplar
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 134 exemplar
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 77 exemplar
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women (A Midland Book) (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 52 exemplar
First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (1997) — Förord — 50 exemplar
Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar
The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Erdrich, Louise
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Erdrich, Karen Louise
- Födelsedag
- 1954-06-07
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Little Falls, Minnesota, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Reservation, North Dakota, USA - Utbildning
- Dartmouth College (AB|1976)
Johns Hopkins University (MA|Creative Writing|1979) - Yrken
- short story writer
poet
novelist
businesswoman - Relationer
- Erdrich, Heid E. (sister)
Erdrich, Lise (sister)
Erdrich, Ronald W. (cousin)
Dorris, Michael (husband|divorced) - Organisationer
- Anishinaabe Nation
Birchbark Books (owner) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2021)
Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota (2005)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1992)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2009)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (2000)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998) (visa alla 25)
National Book Award for Fiction (2012)
American Academy of Poets Prize (1975)
MacDowell Fellowship (1980)
Pushcart Prize (1983)
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1984, 2016)
Sue Kaufman Prize (1984)
Virginia McCormick Scully Literary Award (1984)
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1985)
O. Henry Award (1987)
World Fantasy Award (1999)
Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award (2000)
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (2006, 2013)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2009)
Rough Rider Award (2013)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2014)
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction (2014)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2015)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1985)
Berresford Prize (2022) - Agent
- Andrew Wylie (The Wylie Agency)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
November 2019: Louise Erdrich i Monthly Author Reads (september 2022)
Group Read, June 2020: Love Medicine i 1001 Books to read before you die (juni 2020)
Group Read of The Round House by Erdrich i 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (februari 2017)
Louise Erdrich: American Author Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (september 2015)
Louise Erdrich series? i Librarything Series (augusti 2011)
Recensioner
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Five star books (3)
Overdue Podcast (1)
First Novels (1)
At the Library (1)
Female Author (1)
Books About Boys (1)
"We" narration (1)
All Iowa Reads (1)
Best First Lines (1)
My TBR (1)
READ IN 2022 (1)
Florida (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
Which house? (2)
Netgalley Reads (2)
AP Lit (4)
Carole's List (4)
FAB 2022 (1)
Indie Next Picks (1)
Sense of place (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 67
- Även av
- 92
- Medlemmar
- 37,434
- Popularitet
- #487
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 1,311
- ISBN
- 659
- Språk
- 16
- Favoritmärkt
- 130
A world where evolution is turning backwards it may be unrealistic but dystopian fiction doesn’t need to be realistic to convey how society deals with disruption and disaster. Also covers some real life themes such as adoption and explores some native american traditions!