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Louise Erdrich is a renowned Native American author who has written numerous 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 and has received several prestigious literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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About the Louise Erdrich
Karen Louise Erdrichis a Native 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 of North Dakota, a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people.
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. In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House. 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. In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Night Watchman.
She was married to author Michael Dorris and the two collaborated on a number of works. The couple separated in 1995 and then divorced in 1996; Dorris would also take his own life in 1997 as allegations that he sexually abused at least three of the daughters whom he raised with Erdrich were under investigation.
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.
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Louise Erdrich is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people in North Dakota.
Louise Erdrich has written 28 books in total, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s books.
Louise Erdrich has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Louise Erdrich’s writing primarily features Native American characters and settings, with a focus on the experiences and perspectives of indigenous people.
Louise Erdrich and her former husband, Michael Dorris, collaborated on several works together. However, their marriage ended in divorce, and Dorris later took his own life as allegations of sexual abuse against him were being investigated.
Louise Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance, a movement that has brought increased recognition and representation of Native American literature and culture.
Louise Erdrich is 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.
7 Quotes by Louise Erdrich
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Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
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It was enough just to sit there without words.
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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn’t discover America.
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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It’s invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
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