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Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an Ojibwe writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a band of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa). Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. In 2009, her novel ''The Plague of Doves'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and also received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.〔(The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Winners by Year )〕 In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel ''The Round House''. She will be awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival in September, 2015.〔 She was married to author Michael Dorris and the two collaborated on a number of works. She is also the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and the Native community in the Twin Cities. ==Early and personal life== Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, the first of seven children to Ralph Erdrich, a German-American, and his wife Rita (''née'' Gourneau), half French-American and half Ojibwe. Both parents taught at a boarding school in Wahpeton, North Dakota, set up by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and her maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, served as tribal chairman for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians for many years.〔("Faces of America: Louise Erdrich" ), PBS, ''Faces of America'' series, with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2010.〕 While Erdrich was a child, her father paid her a nickel for every story she wrote. Her sister Heidi is a poet who also lives in Minnesota and publishes under the name Heid E. Erdrich.〔See her website (''Heid E. Erdrich'' ).〕 Another sister, Lise Erdrich, has written children's books and collections of fiction and essays. Erdrich attended Dartmouth College from 1972 to 1976 as part of its first co-ed class, and earned the A.B. in English. There she met her future husband, anthropologist and writer Michael Dorris, then-director of the new Native American Studies program. Erdrich earned the Master of Arts in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 1979. Erdrich married Michael Dorris in 1981 and they raised three adopted children and three biological children until their separation in 1995 and Dorris' suicide in 1997. Erdrich lives in Minnesota. She returned to Dartmouth in 2009 to receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters and to deliver the commencement address. Erdrich and her two sisters have hosted writers' workshops on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louise Erdrich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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