Sherman Alexie
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Alexie at the Texas Book Festival in 2008
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| Born | Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. October 7, 1966 Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, poet, screenwriter, filmmaker |
| Nationality |
Spokane Coeur d'Alene American |
| Genre | Native American literature, humor, documentary fiction |
| Literary movement | Indigenous Nationalism |
| Notable works | • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Smoke Signals • Reservation Blues • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven • War Dances |
| Notable awards |
American Book Award 2010 |
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American Book Award
1996
National Book Award
2007
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
One of his best-known books is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), a collection of short stories. It was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay.
His first novel Reservation Blues received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards. His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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