N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024)
Autor de House Made of Dawn
Sobre El Autor
Navarre Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Okla. to Kiowa parents who successfully bridged the gap between Native American and white ways, but remained true to their heritage. Momaday attended the University of New Mexico and earned an M.A and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in mostrar más 1963. A member of the Gourd Dance Society of the Kiowa Tribe, Momaday has received a plethora of writing accolades, including the Academy of American Poets prize for The Bear and the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for House Made of Dawn. He also shared the Western Heritage Award with David Muench in 1974 for the nonfiction book Colorado: Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring, and he is the author of the film adaptation of Frank Water's novel, The Man Who Killed the Deer. His work, The Names is composed of tribal tales, boyhood memories, and family histories. Another book, The Way to Rainy Mountain, melds myth, history, and personal recollection into a Kiowa tribe narrative. Throughout his writings, Momaday celebrate his Kiowa Native American heritage in structure, theme, and subject matter, often dealing with the man-nature relationship as a central theme and sustaining the Indian oral tradition. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Library of Congress
Obras de N. Scott Momaday
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows (Stories & Storytellers) (2007) 19 copias
l'enfant des temps oubliés 3 copias
Gourd Dancer 1 copia
Names 1 copia
The Way to Rainy Mountian 1 copia
Grand Canyon 1 copia
A First American Views His Land 1 copia
The Transformation 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 917 copias
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (1988) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 554 copias
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Contribuidor — 258 copias
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Contribuidor — 256 copias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Contribuidor — 69 copias
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Contribuidor — 69 copias
Native Heritage: Personal Accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the Present (1995) — Contribuidor — 58 copias
The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction (1991) — Contribuidor — 25 copias
The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature (First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous) (2010) — Prólogo — 14 copias
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- Momaday, Navarre Scott
- Otros nombres
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1934-02-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2024-01-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Kiowa
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA (birth)
Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA - Educación
- University of New Mexico
Stanford University - Ocupaciones
- short-story writer
novelist
professor - Relaciones
- Momaday, Natachee Scott (mother)
Momaday, Alfred (father) - Organizaciones
- University of Arizona
University of Regensburg
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara - Premios y honores
- National Medal of Arts (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1970)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1983)
Oklahoma Poet Laureate
Guggenheim Fellowship
Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)
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