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- Born
- 1954
- Works
- 82
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
- Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
- Fiction
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Key facts
- Born
- Karen Louise Erdrich , ( 1954-06-07 ) June 7, 1954 (age 71) , Little Falls, Minnesota , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist short story writer poet
- Citizenship
- Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota and American
- Education
- Dartmouth College ( BA ), Johns Hopkins University ( MA )
- Genre
- Native American literature , children's books
- Literary movement
- Postmodernism , Native American Renaissance
- Notable works
- Love Medicine The Birchbark House The Round House LaRose Future Home of the Living God The Night Watchman
- Notable awards
- National Book Award for Fiction (2012) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2021)
- Spouse
- Michael Dorris ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1996 )
- Relatives
- Heid E. Erdrich (sister)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Little Falls
- Spouse
- Michael Dorris
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Educated at
- Dartmouth College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- children's literature
- Genre
- fiction
- Official website
- www.louiseerdrichbooks.com
- Image
- Louise Erdrich (19303274788).jpg
- Number of children
- 7
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- date of birth
- 1954-06-07
- Commons category
- Louise Erdrich
- ethnic group
- Ojibwe
- name in native language
- Louise Erdrich
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Encyclopedic overview
Karen Louise Erdrich (/ˈɜːrdrɪk/ ER-drik; born June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, short stories, 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.
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.
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