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Louise Erdrich

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Writer from the United States

United StatesWritersBorn 1954 · age 72
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Karen Louise Erdrich is an American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people.

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Louise Erdrich
said · 2020
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(Did you feel you weren't finding yourself in the books you read?) LE: Perhaps that's why I was drawn to science fiction.

in The writer's library: the authors you love on the books that changed their lives by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager (2020)

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Louise Erdrich
said · 2020
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These treaties had been made since the beginning of our country on a nation-to-nation basis with every tribe.

with NPR (2020)

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Louise Erdrich
said · 2020
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I'm a very mixed person. And yet, being a citizen of a nation within our nation gives one a certain sense of - it changes your life.

with NPR (2020)

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Awards 16

2023Prix Femina étranger
2021Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2017Owen Wister Award
2016National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
2015Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
2013American Book Awards
2012National Book Award
2012National Book Award for Fiction
2009Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2000WILLA Literary Award
1999World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
1987O. Henry Award
1985Guggenheim Fellowship
1985Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
1984National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Aspen Words Literary Prize

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About this person

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1954 · age 72
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27 languages

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