Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Among Winners of National Book Critics Circle AwardsPosted in Articles, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, United States on 2017-03-20 02:21Z by Steven |
Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Among Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards
The New York Times
2017-03-16
Alexandra Alter, Publishing Reporter
 Louise Erdrich outside her bookstore, Birchbark Books, in Minneapolis. Credit Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times |
Louise Erdrich’s novel “LaRose,” which centers on two Native American families in North Dakota whose lives are upended by a horrific hunting accident that kills a 5-year-old boy, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction on Thursday.
Ms. Erdrich, who has published 15 novels, won in an especially competitive year for high-profile literary fiction, with Michael Chabon, Ann Patchett, Zadie Smith and Adam Haslett among the finalists.
“I’m among such dramatically wonderful novels that it didn’t seem that this was possible,” Ms. Erdrich said in her acceptance speech, before making a passionate plea about the importance of free expression and the need for writers and journalists to challenge falsehoods.
“The truth is being assaulted not only in our country but all over the world,” she said. “More than ever, we have to look into the truth.”…
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