Sherman Alexie

Autor de El Diario completamente verídico de un indio a tiempo parcial

63+ Obras 28,312 Miembros 1,336 Reseñas 150 Preferidas

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

Incluye los nombres: Sherman Alexi, Alexie Sherman, Sherman Alexie, Sherman Alexie, editor

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Native American Literature Course Pack (1994) 362 copias

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Smoke Signals: A Screenplay (1998) 158 copias

Face (2009) 116 copias

Old Shirts & New Skins (1993) 113 copias

The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Editor — 96 copias

Smoke Signals [1998 film] (1993) — Autor — 84 copias

What I've Stolen, What I've Earned (2014) 42 copias

Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems (1605) 27 copias

Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay (2003) 16 copias

The man who loves salmon (1998) 15 copias

Dangerous Astronomy (2005) 15 copias

The Toughest Indian in the World (Short Story), What You Pawn I Will Redeem (Short Story) 12 copias

Water flowing home : poems (1995) 9 copias

The Business of Fancydancing {video} (2002) 9 copias

What You Pawn I Will Redeem [short story] 8 copias

Phoenix, Arizona : Et autres nouvelles (1999) 8 copias

Selected Shorts: For Better and for Worse (2008) 6 copias

This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona 5 copias

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales {abridged} (2011) 4 copias

Ghost Dance [Short Story] 4 copias

Salmon Boy 3 copias

Distances [short story] 3 copias

Home Field: Writers Remember Baseball (2010) 3 copias

Ploughshares Winter 2000-01 : Stories and Poems (2000) 3 copias

Prairie Schooner (Winter 2012) (2013) 2 copias

The Ballad of Paul Nonetheless (2010) 2 copias

La Pelea Celestial Del Llanero Solitario Y Toro (1994) 2 copias

Indian Education 2 copias

The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb 2 copias

Superman and Me 1 copia

Salt (short story) 1 copia

20+1 short stories: Une anthologie des meilleures nouvelles de Terres d'Amériques (A.M. TER.AMER.) (French Edition) (2016) 1 copia

By Sherman Alexie - The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems 1 copia

“Captivity” 1 copia

Three Poems 1 copia

Sherman Alexie class 1 copia

Red Blues (Collections Litterature) (French Edition) (2008) 1 copia

Matador Indio (1998) 1 copia

Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest 1 copia

The Toughest Indian in the World (in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD) 1 copia

Fire with Fire 1 copia

Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star−Spangled Banner' at… 1 copia

Breaking and Entering (short story) 1 copia

Over ruggen van zalmen (2015) 1 copia

What Sacagawea Means to Me (in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 - EGGERS) 1 copia

Junior Polatkin's Wild West Show 1 copia

Happy trails 1 copia

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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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