Louise Erdrich
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Karen Louise Erdrich (/ˈɜːrdrɪk/ ER-drik;[1] born June 7, 1954)[2] is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people.[3]
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Born | Karen Louise Erdrich (1954-06-07) June 7, 1954 (age 69) Little Falls, Minnesota, U.S. |
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Nationality | Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, American |
Education | Dartmouth College (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) |
Genre | Native American literature, children's books |
Literary movement | Postmodernism, Native American Renaissance |
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Children | 7 |
Relatives | Heid E. Erdrich (sister) |
Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. She has written 28 books in all, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[4] In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House.[5] She is a 2013 recipient of the Alex Awards. She was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival in September 2015.[6] In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Night Watchman.[7]
She was married to author Michael Dorris and the two collaborated on a number of works. The couple separated in 1995.
She is also the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and the Native community in the Twin Cities.[8]