Leslie Marmon Silko

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Leslie Marmon Silko (born March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) is a Native American writer.

Life

Leslie Marmon Silko is the daughter of a Mexican-Anglo-American-Indian family and grew up on the Laguna reservation , where she attended the local Indian school for several years. She later went to a Catholic school in Albuquerque. After high school, she studied law at the University of New Mexico and taught at universities in Alaska, New Mexico, and Arizona.

She published her first two short stories Tony's Story and The Man to Send Rain Clouds in 1969 . In 1974 she published her first book Laguna Women Poems .

Her novels take up numerous motifs from the narrative tradition of the Pueblo Indians. She herself declares that she grew up listening to the stories of her grandmother and other older reservation residents.

She lives in Tucson , Arizona .

In 1981 she was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2001 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • Foreword to Circle of Nations - German: Guardian of Wisdom , Frederking & Thaler 1993
  • Garden in the Dunes (1999) - German: Gardens in the Desert , Frankfurt am Main (2000), ISBN 3-8077-0217-2
  • Love poem and Slim Man Canyon (1996)
  • Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today (1996)
  • Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures (1993)
  • Yellow Woman (1993)
  • Almanac of the Dead (1991) - German: Almanach der Toten , Frankfurt am Main (1995), ISBN 3-453-12530-4
  • The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters by Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright (1986)
  • Storyteller (1981)
  • Western Stories (1980)
  • Ceremony (1977) - German: Stolen land will eat their hearts (1981) ISBN 3-293-20082-6
  • Laguna Women: Poems (1974)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tony's Story ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / people.ku.edu
  2. ↑ Per Seyersted, Two interviews with Leslie Marmon Silko. In: American Studies in Scandinavia, No. 13, 1981, pp. 17-33
personal data
SURNAME Silko, Leslie Marmon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Albuquerque