N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024)
Forfatter af House Made of Dawn
Om forfatteren
Navarre Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Okla. to Kiowa parents who successfully bridged the gap between Native American and white ways, but remained true to their heritage. Momaday attended the University of New Mexico and earned an M.A and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in vis mere 1963. A member of the Gourd Dance Society of the Kiowa Tribe, Momaday has received a plethora of writing accolades, including the Academy of American Poets prize for The Bear and the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for House Made of Dawn. He also shared the Western Heritage Award with David Muench in 1974 for the nonfiction book Colorado: Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring, and he is the author of the film adaptation of Frank Water's novel, The Man Who Killed the Deer. His work, The Names is composed of tribal tales, boyhood memories, and family histories. Another book, The Way to Rainy Mountain, melds myth, history, and personal recollection into a Kiowa tribe narrative. Throughout his writings, Momaday celebrate his Kiowa Native American heritage in structure, theme, and subject matter, often dealing with the man-nature relationship as a central theme and sustaining the Indian oral tradition. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af N. Scott Momaday
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows (Stories & Storytellers) (2007) 19 eksemplarer
l'enfant des temps oubliés 3 eksemplarer
Gourd Dancer 1 eksemplar
Names 1 eksemplar
The Way to Rainy Mountian 1 eksemplar
Death Of Sitting Bear: New And Selected Poems 1 eksemplar
Grand Canyon 1 eksemplar
A First American Views His Land 1 eksemplar
The Transformation 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (1988) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 554 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragyder — 334 eksemplarer
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Bidragyder — 258 eksemplarer
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Bidragyder — 256 eksemplarer
Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry (1988) — Bidragyder — 140 eksemplarer
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragyder — 83 eksemplarer
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Bidragyder — 69 eksemplarer
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Bidragyder — 69 eksemplarer
Native Heritage: Personal Accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the Present (1995) — Bidragyder — 58 eksemplarer
Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature (2000) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction (1991) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
Voices from WahKon-Tah;: Contemporary poetry of native Americans, (1974) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature (First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous) (2010) — Forord — 14 eksemplarer
American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn [1992 TV episode] (1992) — Fortæller — 10 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Momaday, Navarre Scott
- Andre navne
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Fødselsdato
- 1934-02-27
- Dødsdag
- 2024-01-24
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Kiowa
USA - Fødested
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
- Dødssted
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Bopæl
- Lawton, Oklahoma, USA (birth)
Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA - Uddannelse
- University of New Mexico
Stanford University - Erhverv
- short-story writer
novelist
professor - Relationer
- Momaday, Natachee Scott (mother)
Momaday, Alfred (father) - Organisationer
- University of Arizona
University of Regensburg
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Medal of Arts (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1970)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1983)
Oklahoma Poet Laureate
Guggenheim Fellowship
Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)
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The Way to Rainy Mountain af N. Scott Momaday
While evocative of a mythopoeic beginning of the Kiowa ancestral history, the narrative didn't flow very clearly. There were confusing passages that seemed to repeat earlier histories but set later in time. However these drawbacks didn't obscure the strong imagery of these peoples lives and the very real journey taken to arrive in the southern plains. This story also provided reminiscences of Momaday's childhood and memories of a beloved grandmother and a livelihood lost in a modern world.
½
Reason read: Pulitzer winner
This book, by Native American author N. Scott Momaday, won the Pulitzer in 1969. This author is described as the author who opened literature for Native American authors and he is listed as the inspiration for Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, as several other Native American Authors. This is the story of a returning WWII vet to his reservation and the struggles to fit in. The theme is alienation. The book started as poetry, then stories and morphed into a novel and it reads as if it doesn't quite fit any form. The title is a reference to the land and its people. I did not enjoy this book. Rating 3.2… (mere)
This book, by Native American author N. Scott Momaday, won the Pulitzer in 1969. This author is described as the author who opened literature for Native American authors and he is listed as the inspiration for Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, as several other Native American Authors. This is the story of a returning WWII vet to his reservation and the struggles to fit in. The theme is alienation. The book started as poetry, then stories and morphed into a novel and it reads as if it doesn't quite fit any form. The title is a reference to the land and its people. I did not enjoy this book. Rating 3.2… (mere)
Very cool format. On the left page there is a Kiowa story or legend, on the top of the facing page is a historical context for the story/legend, and below that is a personal recollection of the author's that ties in to either the story or the land.
I liked the stories, but my favorite parts were his personal recollections and descriptions of the land. It made me want to go to the Plains, Oklahoma, and Rainy Mountain immediately, to see if I could feel something as powerful as he describes.… (mere)
I liked the stories, but my favorite parts were his personal recollections and descriptions of the land. It made me want to go to the Plains, Oklahoma, and Rainy Mountain immediately, to see if I could feel something as powerful as he describes.… (mere)
This 1969 Pulitzer winning novel reads like an epic poem and its descriptions of the New Mexican landscape are so vivid you can almost feel like you're there. But, for me, whatever other merits it might have are overshadowed by the lifeless portrayal of its female characters.
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