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Karen Louise Erdrich (/ ˈ ɜːr d r ɪ k / ER-drik; [2] born June 7, 1954) [3] is a Native American author of novels, 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 .
After returning to the United States in 1981, he married Louise Erdrich, [4] a writer of Anishinaabe, German-American, and Métis descent. They had met 10 years earlier while he was teaching at Dartmouth and she was a student. [6] During his sabbatical in New Zealand, Dorris and Erdrich had begun corresponding regularly by mail. [5]
The legendary author Louise Erdrich answers questions about her career and Native American literature. Louise Erdrich on ‘The Mighty Red’ and how her legendary books came to be Skip to main ...
The Crown of Columbus [coauthored with Michael Dorris] (1991); The Antelope Wife (1998), revised (2009) and published as Antelope Woman (2016); The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003) ISBN 978-0-06-083705-1, OCLC 1016695053
Apr. 25—Louise Erdrich is 2021 winner of the $35,000 Aspen Words literary prize for her novel "The Night Watchman." The prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that ...
At the start of Louise Erdrich’s stunning new novel, “The Night Watchman,” Thomas Wazhushk, Chippewa Council member and night watchman at a jewel bearing plant, studies a U.S. congressional ...
Erdrich reportedly developed rules for when Agnes would react as her female self and when she would react as Father Damien, [9] and this shifting happens continually throughout the work. Multiple times throughout the novel, when the question of gender identity arises, Agnes/Damien simply says that s/he is a priest, eliminating the binary ...
The novel was inspired by the life of Erdrich's grandfather who motivated and inspired other members of the Turtle Mountain Reservation to resist the Indian termination policies of the 1940s-1960s. [2] The Night Watchman is the first novel that Erdrich has written that is set on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. [3]