Louise
Erdrich's The Round House (2012), a story of a woman who is attacked on a North Dakota reservation has
won America's prestigious National Book award.
"This is a book about a huge case of injustice ongoing on reservations.
Thank you for giving it a wider audience," she said, according to the New
York Times.
Louise
Erdrich is the author of fourteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short
stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love
Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award (1984). The Last
Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National
Book Award in 2001. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book
Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Louise Erdrich lives
in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore.
Watch an
interview with Erdrich discussing The Round House on “Well-Read”:
by Małgorzata Olsza
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