Leslie Marmon Silko | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Silko at a 2011 reading | |
| Born | Leslie Marmon March 5, 1948 Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of New Mexico |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Literary movement | Native American Renaissance |
| Notable work | Ceremony (1977)
Storyteller (1981) Almanac of the Dead (1991) |
Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer. A woman of Laguna Pueblo descent, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981. the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994[1] and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2020.[2] She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.
- ^ List of NWCA Lifetime Achievement Awards, accessed August 6, 2010.
- ^ Pineda, Dorany (April 17, 2021). "Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 17, 2021.