N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024)
Auteur van House Made of Dawn
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Werken van N. Scott Momaday
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows (Stories & Storytellers) (2007) 19 exemplaren
l'enfant des temps oubliés 3 exemplaren
Grand Canyon 1 exemplaar
Death Of Sitting Bear: New And Selected Poems 1 exemplaar
Names 1 exemplaar
The Transformation 1 exemplaar
A First American Views His Land 1 exemplaar
Gourd Dancer 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Momaday, Navarre Scott
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Geboortedatum
- 1934-02-27
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2024-01-24
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Kiowa
USA - Geboorteplaats
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA (birth)
Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA - Opleiding
- University of New Mexico
Stanford University - Beroepen
- short-story writer
novelist
professor - Relaties
- Momaday, Natachee Scott (mother)
Momaday, Alfred (father) - Organisaties
- University of Arizona
University of Regensburg
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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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