Ojibwe Author Louise Erdrich Wins National Book Award

Nov 19, 2012 | Blog

Ojibwe Author Louise Erdrich Wins National Book Award

November 19, 2012

Louise Erdrich, 58, a celebrated writer, poet, and enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has won the National Book Award for her novel, “The Round House,” the second of a planned trilogy, set in her native North Dakota about an Ojibwe boy and his quest to avenge his mother’s rape.

Erdrich has long been praised for her ability to portray “the grace and endurance of Native people,” using her own words. She is the author of 13 novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Most recently, The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Louise Erdrich lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore, where you can order her book.

http://birchbarkbooks.com/

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