N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024)
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Navarre Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Okla. to Kiowa parents who successfully bridged the gap between Native American and white ways, but remained true to their heritage. Momaday attended the University of New Mexico and earned an M.A and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in mostra altro 1963. A member of the Gourd Dance Society of the Kiowa Tribe, Momaday has received a plethora of writing accolades, including the Academy of American Poets prize for The Bear and the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for House Made of Dawn. He also shared the Western Heritage Award with David Muench in 1974 for the nonfiction book Colorado: Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring, and he is the author of the film adaptation of Frank Water's novel, The Man Who Killed the Deer. His work, The Names is composed of tribal tales, boyhood memories, and family histories. Another book, The Way to Rainy Mountain, melds myth, history, and personal recollection into a Kiowa tribe narrative. Throughout his writings, Momaday celebrate his Kiowa Native American heritage in structure, theme, and subject matter, often dealing with the man-nature relationship as a central theme and sustaining the Indian oral tradition. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Library of Congress
Opere di N. Scott Momaday
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows (Stories & Storytellers) (2007) 20 copie
l'enfant des temps oubliés 3 copie
Gourd Dancer 1 copia
Names 1 copia
The Way to Rainy Mountian 1 copia
Grand Canyon 1 copia
A First American Views His Land 1 copia
The Transformation 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 925 copie
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (1988) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 558 copie
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Collaboratore — 258 copie
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Collaboratore — 258 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
Native Heritage: Personal Accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the Present (1995) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction (1991) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature (First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous) (2010) — Prefazione — 14 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Momaday, Navarre Scott
- Altri nomi
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Data di nascita
- 1934-02-27
- Data di morte
- 2024-01-24
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Kiowa
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA (birth)
Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA - Istruzione
- University of New Mexico
Stanford University - Attività lavorative
- short-story writer
novelist
professor - Relazioni
- Momaday, Natachee Scott (mother)
Momaday, Alfred (father) - Organizzazioni
- University of Arizona
University of Regensburg
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Medal of Arts (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1970)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1983)
Oklahoma Poet Laureate
Guggenheim Fellowship
Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 41
- Opere correlate
- 39
- Utenti
- 3,968
- Popolarità
- #6,361
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 62
- ISBN
- 130
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 10
Vicenda autobiografica, l'autore, Scott Momaday è figlio di genitori Cherokee e Kiowa. Il libro ha ricevuto nel 1969 il premio Pulitzer per la letteratura.