Joseph Bruchac

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Joseph Bruchac (* 16th October 1942 in Saratoga Springs , New York ) is an Indian - American writer and member of the Abenaki -Stammesgruppe. In addition to his publications as a poet and novelist, Bruchac writes children's books and works as an editor and publisher of collections of contemporary Indian-American authors. Bruchac is a member of the Poetry Society of America and the PEN Club.

Life

Bruchac studied literature at Cornell University , received his MA from Syracuse University and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation in comparative literature at the Union Institute in Cincinnati in 1975 . On behalf of Skidmore College , he directed a college program in a maximum security prison for eight years.

With his wife, Carol, he founded the Greenfield Review Literary Center , a nonprofit in Greenfield Center , New York, and the publisher The Greenfield Review Press .

Bruchac published over 70 books; his poems and short stories have appeared in over 500 publications. His anthology Breaking Silence won the American Book Award in 1984. He also received a scholarship from the New York State Arts Council in 1972 , later a Writing Fellowship for Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts , the Cherokee Nation Prose Award , the Knickerbocker Award , the Hope S. Dean Award for Notable Achievement in Children's Literature and im In 1998 two awards from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers (Writer of the Year and Storyteller of the Year Award). In 1999 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas .

Works

  • Canticle . Cold Mountain Press, Austin TX 1974 ("poetry postcard")
  • Entering Onondaga. Poems . Cold Mountain Press, Austin TX 1978. ISBN 0-915496-07-0 (Paperback)
  • Stone Giants and Flying Heads. Adventure Stories of the Iroquois . The Crossing Press, Trumansburg NY 1978. ISBN 0-89594-007-8
    German translation: Stone giants and flying heads. Adventurous stories of the Iroquois . Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main 1983. ISBN 3-88939-005-6 (translated by Jürgen Abi Schmitt)
  • The Wind Eagle and Other Abenaki Stories . Greenfield Review Press, Greenfield Center NY 1985. ISBN 0-912678-64-X
    German translation: The wind eagle and other stories of the Abenaki . Herder, Vienna / Freiburg / Basel 1987. ISBN 3-210-24839-7 (translated by Käthe Recheis )
  • Dawn Land: A Novel . Fulcrum Publishing, Golden CO 1993. ISBN 1-55591-134-X
  • Fox song . Philomel Books, New York 1993. ISBN 0-399-22346-0
  • A Boy Called Slow. The True Story of Sitting Bull . Philomel Books, New York 1994. ISBN 0-399-22692-3
    German translation: They called him Slon-he. The story of Sitting Bull . KeRLE published by Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Vienna / Basel 1997. ISBN 3-451-70205-3 (translated by Käthe Recheis )
  • Between Earth & Sky. Legends of Native American Sacred Places . Dial Books for Young Readers, New York 1996. ISBN 0-15-200042-9
  • Eagle song . Dial Books, New York 1997. ISBN 0-8037-1918-3
  • Bowman's Store. A Journey to Myself . Dial Books, New York 1997. ISBN 0-8037-1997-3
  • The Arrow Over the Door . Dial Books, New York 1998. ISBN 0-8037-2078-5
  • Heart of a Chief . Dial Books, New York 1998. ISBN 0-8037-2276-1
  • Many Nations: An Alphabet of Native America . Troll Communications, 1998. ISBN 0-8167-4460-2
  • The Winter People . Dial Books, New York 2002. ISBN 0-8037-2694-5
  • Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two . Dial Books, New York 2005. ISBN 0-8037-2921-9
  • Wabi . Dial Books, New York 2006. ISBN 0-8037-3098-5

As editor

  • Aftermath: An Anthology of Poems in English from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean . Greenfield Review Press, Greenfield Center NY 1977. ISBN 0-912678-22-4 (joint with Roger Weaver)
  • The Next World. Poems by 32 Third World Americans . The Crossing Press, Trumansburg NY 1978. ISBN 0-89594-009-4
  • Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry . Greenfield Review Press, Greenfield Center NY 1983. ISBN 0-912678-58-5
  • Breaking silence. An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets . Greenfield Review Press, Greenfield Center NY 1983. ISBN 0-912678-59-3
  • North Country: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing From the Adirondacks and the Upper Hudson Valley . Greenfield Review Press, Greenfield Center NY 1986. ISBN 0-912678-65-8 (together with Craig Hancock, Alice Gilborn, and Jean Rikhoff)
  • Survival This Way. Interviews with American Indian Poets . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1987. ISBN 0-8165-1024-5
  • Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1994. ISBN 0-8165-1486-0
  • Aniyunwiya / Real Human Beings. An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose . Greenfield Review Press, Greenfield Center NY 1995. ISBN 0-912678-92-5

Anthologies in German

  • Long Memory and other poems / Langes Gedächtnis und other poems . WURF-Verlag, Münster 1989. ISBN 3-923881-29-0 (translated by Hartmut Lutz).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , query date: October 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bruchac, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green corn moon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Native American author
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Saratoga Springs , New York