Timothy Patrick Barrus

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Timothy Patrick Barrus (* 1950 in Lansing, Michigan ) alias Nasdijj or Yinishye Nasdijj , is an American writer. He won the PEN American Center's Beyond Margins award for his supposedly autobiographical novel The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping and is known for the scandal surrounding his supposedly autobiographical works.

Life

Barrus was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1950. He has no Indian ancestry. Barrus was moderately successful as a porno writer. In 1999, he came up with the idea of ​​posing as a Native American Nasdijj, and under that name he published an essay in Esquire entitled "The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams". The article covered the death of his alleged son "Tommy Nothing Fancy" from fetal alcohol syndrome and was widely praised for its sensitivity and authenticity. In 2004 Barrus won the PEN American Center's Beyond Margins award for his allegedly autobiographical novel The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping , published in 2000. Other books deal with Native American life and the issues of child abuse, poverty and AIDS from an allegedly autobiographical perspective. His books have been widely praised and described as poetic and refreshing. In 2006 it became known that Nasdijj was actually Barrus.

Trivia

Barrus claimed that "Nasdijj" means "to be born again" in the Navajo language. In fact, Nasdijj has no meaning in this language.

Works

As Tim Barrus

  • My brother my lover. Gay Sunshine, 1985
  • Anywhere, Anywhere. Knights Press, 1987
  • Selective Service (with Robert McCartney-Moore). Knights Press, 1991.
  • To indigo dust. Knights Press, 1992.

As Nasdijj

  • The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams (2000)
  • The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping (2003)
  • Geronimo's Bones: A Memoir of My Brother and Me (2004)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b PEN American Center: Beyond Margins Award Winners ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pen.org
  2. ↑ Andrew Chaikivsky (Apr. 30, 2006). "Nasdijj". Esquire. http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/060424_mfe_May_06_Nasdijj_1.html
  3. ^ Marijo Moore. "Review". Studies in American Indian Literatures
  4. ^ Matthew Fleischer (January 26, 2006). "Navahoax". LA Weekly. http://www.laweekly.com/2006-01-26/news/navahoax/
personal data
SURNAME Barrus, Timothy Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasdijj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Lansing, Michigan