Silko
Americannoun
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In 1969, Momaday became the first Native American to win the fiction Pulitzer, and his novel helped launch a generation of authors, including Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Louise Erdrich.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024
Native American literature: A panel paying homage to Leslie Marmon Silko, 2020 Robert Kirsch Award winner Acclaimed novelist, poet and essayist Leslie Marmon Silko is known for her lyric treatment of Native American subjects.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2021
For many Native Americans, home was a reservation, a U.S. government euphemism for open-air ghettoization, and the setting of memorable novels by Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich and Leslie Marmon Silko.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2019
“User’s Manual” was in part a provocation—a younger writer’s critique of established Native American writers like Alexie, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 6, 2019
Though late in reaching Nubia, Christianity, after the wars of Silko, spread rapidly, and when the Arab conquerors of Egypt sought to subdue Nubia also they met with stout resistance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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