Louise Erdrich
# Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich (Little Falls, Minnesota, 1954) escritora estadounidense de origen chippewa y alemán, miembro de la Turtle Band of Chippewa.

Se crio en Wahpeton, Dakota del Norte. donde sus padres eran maestros de escuela. Se graduó en 1976 en el Darmouth College y ejerció como docente en diversas instituciones, como la Johns Hopkins University, donde se doctoró en escritura creativa. Sus obras están ambientadas en la vida de los chippewa de Minnesota y Wisconsin. Casada desde 1981 con el también escritor amerindio Michael Dorris, hasta que él se suicidó en 1997.

## Premios

* O. Henry Award (1987)
* Pushcart Prize in Poetry (1983)
* Western Literacy Association Award
* Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts (1985)
* National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, para Love Medicine (1984) and LaRose (2016)
* World Fantasy Award, for The Antelope Wife (1999)
* Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2000)
* Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, 2005
* Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, para The Game of Silence (2006)
* April 2007 honorary doctorate from the University of North Dakota; refused by Erdrich because of her opposition to the university's North Dakota Fighting Sioux mascot
* June 2009, honorary doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from Dartmouth College
* Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, for Plague of Doves (2009)
* National Book Award for Fiction for The Round House (2012)

## Novelas

* Jacklight, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1984)
* Filtro de Amor (Love Medicine), Holt (1984) (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award)
* La reina de la remolacha, Holt (1986)
* Huellas (Tracks: a novel), originalmente publicado por NY: Henry Holt (1988)
* Route Two, Lord John Press (1990)
* The Crown of Columbus (1991) (con su marido, Michael Dorris)
* Bingo Palace (The Bingo Palace), NY: HarperCollinsPublishers (1994)
* Tales of Burning Love (1996)
* The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year, HarperCollins (1995)
* The Antelope Wife (1998) (winner of the 1999 World Fantasy Award)
* The Birchbark House, NY: Hyperion Books for Children (1999)
* The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, NY: HarperCollins (2001)
* The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003)
* Four Souls (2004)
* El coro de los maestros carniceros (The Master Butcher's Singing Club: A Novel), NY: HarperCollins (2003)
* The Painted Drum (2005)
* Plaga de Palomas (The Plague of Doves) (2008)
* El juego de la Sombra (Shadow Tag) (2010)
* La casa redonda (2012)
* El hijo de todos (LaRose) (2016) (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award)
* Un futuro hogar para el dios viviente (2017)

## Recopilatorios de cuentos cortos

* El descapotable rojo 1978-2008 (2009)

## Libros infantiles

* Grandmother's Pigeon (1996)
* The Birchbark House (1999)
* The Range Eternal (2002)
* The Game of Silence (2005)
* The Porcupine Year (2008)
* Chickadee (2012)

## Poesía

* Jacklight (1984)
* Baptism of Desire NY: Harper & Row (1989)
