{"id":42597,"date":"2015-09-08T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42597"},"modified":"2015-09-08T18:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:13:46","slug":"louise-erdrich-on-her-fiction-im-writing-out-of-the-mixture-of-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42597","title":{"rendered":"Louise Erdrich on her fiction: &#8216;I&#8217;m writing out of the mixture of cultures&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/sep\/05\/louise-erdrich-library-of-congress-prize-american-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">Louise Erdrich on her fiction: &#8216;I&#8217;m writing out of the mixture of cultures&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brideyheing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bridey Heing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the \u2018great loss\u2019 of Native Americans<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louise_Erdrich\" target=\"_blank\">Louise Erdrich<\/a> was presented with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/about\/awards-and-honors\/fiction-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress prize for American fiction<\/a> on Saturday in recognition of her three-decade literary career.<\/p>\n<p>In the Q&amp;A at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/bookfest\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Book Festival<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, DC<\/a>, that followed, Erdrich \u2013 the author of <em>Tracks<\/em>, <em>Love Medicine<\/em> and <em>The Round House<\/em> and a key voice in contemporary American literature \u2013 offered insight into the worldview from which she writes, one heavily influenced by her own experiences as a mixed-race Native American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is where I\u2019m from; literally there\u2019s no other way than this that I can write. I\u2019m writing out of the mixture of cultures,\u201d she said. \u201cKnowing both sides of my family really infused my life with a sense that I lived in many times and in many places as many people. It was never just me. I was always filled with the stories, the humor, the loss. Because, of course, we are all part of this great loss that occurred.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/sep\/05\/louise-erdrich-library-of-congress-prize-american-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Erdrich on her fiction: &#8216;I&#8217;m writing out of the mixture of cultures&#8217; The Guardian 2015-09-05 Bridey Heing Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the \u2018great loss\u2019 of Native Americans Novelist Louise Erdrich was presented with the Library of Congress prize for American fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,3015,20],"tags":[20953,6645,2103],"class_list":["post-42597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-bridey-heing","tag-louise-erdrich","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42598,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42597\/revisions\/42598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}