Sherman Alexie
Autor de El Diario completamente verídico de un indio a tiempo parcial
Sobre El Autor
Sherman J. Alexie Jr. was born on October 7, 1966. His mother was Spokane Indian and his father was Coeur d'Alene Indian. Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He decided to attend high school off the reservation where he knew he would get a better education. He mostrar más was the only Indian at the school, and excelled academically as well as in sports. After high school, he attended Gonzaga University for two years before transferring to Washington State University, where he graduated with a degree in American studies. He received the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship in 1991 and the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1992. His collections of poetry included The Business of Fancydancing, First Indian on the Moon, The Summer of Black Widows, One Stick Song, and Face. His first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. His other short story collections included The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians, and War Dances. His first novel, Reservation Blues, received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize. His other novels included Indian Killer, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and Flight. He won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2018 for You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir. Alexie and Jim Boyd, a Colville Indian, collaborated on the album Reservation Blues, which contains the songs from the book of the same name. In 1997, Alexie collaborated with Chris Eyre, a Cheyenne/Arapaho Indian, on a film project inspired by Alexie's work, This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, from the short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Smoke Signals debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1998, winning two awards: the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy. In 1999 the film received a Christopher Award. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven [20th anniversary edition] (1993) 2,545 copias, 63 reseñas
Ghost Dance [Short Story] 4 copias
Salmon Boy 3 copias
Distances [short story] 3 copias
Indian Education 2 copias
Three Poems 1 copia
“Captivity” 1 copia
Superman and Me 1 copia
20+1 short stories: Une anthologie des meilleures nouvelles de Terres d'Amériques (A.M. TER.AMER.) (French Edition) (2016) 1 copia
Sherman Alexie class 1 copia
Fire with Fire 1 copia
Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest 1 copia
Junior Polatkin's Wild West Show 1 copia
The Toughest Indian in the World (in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD) 1 copia
Happy trails 1 copia
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 126 copias, 1 reseña
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contribuidor — 124 copias, 2 reseñas
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contribuidor — 104 copias
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The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 69 copias, 1 reseña
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Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (Modern Library Paperbacks) (2000) — Contribuidor — 34 copias, 1 reseña
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Alexie, Sherman Joseph, Jr.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1966-10-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Spokane, Washington, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Spokane Indian Reservation, Wellpinit, Washington, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Educación
- Gonzaga University
Washington State University - Ocupaciones
- writer
lecturer
songwriter
stage performer - Relaciones
- Tomhave, Diane (wife)
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
- Premios y honores
- Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship (1991)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1992)
World Heavyweight Poetry Bout Champion (1998-2001)
Washington State University Distinguished Alumni Award (1994)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
The Stranger Genius Award (2008) (mostrar todos 13)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2007)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (2010)
American Book Award (1996)
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2007)
Odyssey Award (2008)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2010)
John Dos Passos Prize (2013)
Miembros
Debates
November 2017: Sherman Alexie en Monthly Author Reads (octubre 2021)
(M101'12) The Business of Fancydancing, Sherman Alexie en World Reading Circle (Enero 2013)
Reseñas
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian por Sherman Alexie
Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself that he never know existed.… (más)
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