Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich , June 7, 1954) is an American writer, novelist, poem, and children's book featuring original American characters and arrangements. He is a registered member of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Indians, a band from Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa).
Erdrich is widely recognized as one of the most important authors of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. In 2009, his novel The Plague Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and also received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. In November 2012, he received the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The Round House . He was awarded the Congress Library Award for American Fiction at the National Book Festival in September 2015. He married writer Michael Dorris and both collaborated on numerous works.
He is also the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and indigenous communities in the Twin Cities.
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Initial and personal life
Erdrich was born on June 7, 1954, in Little Falls, Minnesota. He is the eldest of seven children born to Ralph Erdrich, a German-American, and Rita (nÃÆ' Â © e Gourneau), a Chippewa woman (half Ojibwe and half French blood). His parents taught at boarding schools in Wahpeton, North Dakota, founded by the Indian Affairs Bureau, and Erdrich's maternal grandfather Patrick Gourneau served as tribal chief for the Mountain Turtle Group of the Chippewa Indians for many years. While Erdrich was a kid, his father paid him a cent for each story he wrote. His brother Heidi is a poet who also lives in Minnesota and publishes under the name Heid E. Erdrich. Another sister, Lise Erdrich, has written children's books and a collection of fiction and essays.
Erdrich studied at Dartmouth College from 1972 to 1976. He was part of the first class of women admitted to college and earned the title A.B. in English. During his first year, Erdrich met his future husband and collaborator, Michael Dorris, an anthropologist, author, and then director of the new Native American Studies program. While attending the Dorris class, he began to look at his own ancestors, who gave birth to inspiration for his literary works, such as poetry, short stories, and novels.
In 1978, Erdrich enrolled in the Master of Arts program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Almost a year later, he received the Master of Arts at the Writing Seminar in 1979. Erdrich later published several poems and stories he wrote while in the M.A. program, and he then returned to Dartmouth as a writer-at-home.
Erdrich kept in touch with Dorris. He attended one of the poetry readings, became impressed with his work, and then developed an interest in working with Erdrich. Although Erdrich and Dorris are on two different sides of the world, Erdrich in Boston and Dorris in New Zealand for field research, the two began collaborating on short stories. One short story involving this collaborative work, "The World's Largest Fisheries", won $ 5,000 in the fictional Nelson Algren competition. Erdrich and Dorris later expanded the story into the Love Medicine novel (1984), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Around the same time as the success of their collaboration, Dorris left New Zealand, and upon returning, the literary partnership of Erdrich and Dorris led them to romantic relationships. They married in 1981, and raised three adopted children and three biological children until their separation in 1995 and Dorris's suicide in 1997. After Dorris's suicide, Erdrich released The Antelope Wife (1998).
During the publication of Love Medicine, Erdrich produced his first collection of poems, Jacklight (1984), which highlighted the struggle between indigenous and non-indigenous cultures and commemorates and celebrates family, family ties, meditation autobiography, monologue, and love poetry, and combine the influence of myths and legends of Ojibwe. Erdrich continues to write poetry, which has been included in his collection. However, despite his famous poems, Erdrich remains known as a novelist, having written a dozen award-winning novels and the best sales.
Although much of Erdrich's work is influenced by his native American heritage, his novel The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003) also includes a focus on the European side of his ancestors. This novel contains the story of a World War I veteran who took place in a small town in North Dakota. The novel later became a finalist for the National Book Award.
In addition to fiction and poetry, Erdrich has published non-fiction. The Blue Jay's Dance (1995) included the timeline of pregnancy and the birth of her first child, and Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country tracked her journey in northern Minnesota and Lake Ontario after the birth of her last daughter.
He returned to Dartmouth in 2009 to receive Doctor of Honor Letters and to give his address of commencement.
Erdrich and his two sisters have organized workshops of writers at Turtle Mountain Indian Reserves in North Dakota.
When asked in an interview if writing was a quiet life for him, Erdrich replied, "Strangely, I think so, I am surrounded by an abundance of family and friends, but I am alone with that writing. Erdrich currently lives in Minnesota.
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Work
The legacy of both parents is very influential in his life and stands out in his work.
In 1979 he wrote "The World's Greatest Fisherman", a short story about June Kashpaw, a divorced Ojibwe woman whose hypothetical death brought his relatives home to a North Dakota fictitious reservation for his funeral. It won the Famous Short prize of Nelson Algren and eventually became the first chapter of his debut novel, Love Medicine, published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in 1984.
Love Medicine won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award. It has also been featured on the National Examination Advanced Test for Literature. Erdrich followed Love Medicine with The Beet Queen (1986), who continued his technique using many narrators and expanded the fictitious reserve universe Love Medicine to include nearby cities from Argus, North Dakota. The novel action took place largely before World War II. Leslie Marmon Silko accused Erdrich's Beet Queen of more than postmodern techniques rather than with the political struggle of indigenous peoples.
Trek (1988) returns to the early 20th century on the establishment of the reservation and introduces the Nanapush fraudsters, who are indebted to Nanabozho . Tracks show early clash between traditional and Roman Catholic Church. The Bingo Palace (1994), set in the 1980s, illustrates the effects of casinos and factories in the reservation community. Tales of Burning Love (1997) completed the story of Sister Leopolda, the recurring character of all previous books, and introduces a new set of white men into the world of reservations.
The Antelope Wife (1998), Erdrich's first novel after his divorce with Dorris, was the first of his novels to be placed beyond the continuity of his earlier books. He then returned to reservations and nearby towns, and has published five novels since 1998 dealing with events in the fictional area. Among these are the Final Report on Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) and The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003), a terrible mystery that once again refers to Native Americans Erdrich and German-American heritage. Both novels have geographical and character connections with The Beet Queen . In 2009, Erdrich's novel The Plague of Doves was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. This narrative focuses on the historical humiliation of four Natives falsely accused of killing a Caucasian family, and the effect of this injustice on the present generation.
The elaborate series of Erdrich novels intertwine have drawn comparisons with William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels. Like Faulkner, Erdrich's successive novels create many narrations in the same fictitious field and combine local historical tapestries with current themes and modern consciousness.
Birchbark Books
The bookstore stores literary readings and other events, including the release of each new work of Erdrich as well as the work and career of other authors, especially local authors. Erdrich and his staff regard Birchbark Books as "teaching bookstores". In addition to books, the store sells original art and traditional medicines, and original American jewelry. The small nonprofit publisher founded by Erdrich and his sister, Wiigwaas Press, is affiliated with the store.
Awards
- 1983 Pushcart Prize in Poetry
- 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, for Love Medicine
- 1985 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts
- 1987 O. Henry Award, for short story "Fleur" (published in Esquire, August 1986)
- Fantasy World Award 1999, for
Antelope Wife - 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award from Native American Writer Circle
- 2005 Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota
- 2006 Scott O'Dell Award for History Fiction, for children's book "The Game of Silence"
- Honorary Honors 2007 from North Dakota University; rejected by Erdrich for his opposition to the Sioux Dakota Urban Dakota Urban mascot
- Honorary Honors 2009 (Doctor of Letters) from Dartmouth College
- Kenyon 2009 Award Prize for Literary Achievement
- 2009 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, for Epidemic
- 2012 National Book Award for Fiction for The Round House
- 2013 Rough Rider Award
- Dayton 2014 Literature Peace Prize, Famous Achievements Richard C. Holbrooke
- PEN/Gifts of Saul Bellow 2014 for Achievement in American Fiction
- Library of Congress 2015 Prize for American Fiction
- 2016 National Circle Book Criticism Award for Fiction, for LaRose
Bibliography
See also
- List of authors from natives to America
- Sherman Alexie
- There's a (novel)
References
External links
- Erdrich, Louise. "Louise Erdrich's Birchbark's Blog". Birchbark Blog .
- Louise Erdrich on the Internet Speculative Fantasy Internet
- "Louise Erdrich". Library of Congressional Authorities . Ã, 35 catalog notes
- Works by or about Louise Erdrich in the library (WorldCat catalog)
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