Anglistik/Amerikanistik
8. März 2006, 11:00 - Debra Magpie Earling. Lesung in der Stadtbibliothek Magdeburg
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Magpie Earling was born in Spokane, Washington, on August 3, 1957.
She grew up in Montana as a part of the Bitterroot Salish Tribe, also
known as Flathead Indians, and she is a member of the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Polson,
Montana. Growing up, Earling heard stories about her Aunt Louise,
the woman who would later become the focus of her novel Perma
Red.
Earling attended the University of Washington in Seattle, where she became interested in writing. She holds academic degrees from Cornell University. From 1991 to 1998, Earling held positions in both Native American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Montana in Missoula. Currently, she is an associate professor in the English Department there and teaches fiction and Native American Studies full-time. |
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Earling's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Northeast Indian Quarterly, and many anthologies including Song of the Turtle; Contemporary Short Stories Celebrating Women; Circle of Women; and Talking Leaves: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Short Stories. Although Earling has published many short stories, Perma Red is her first novel and has been receiving critical acclaim and awards ever since its release in 2002. It received the Western Writers Association Spur Award for Best Novel of the West in 2003, the Mountain and Plains Bookseller Association Award, WWA's Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for Best First Novel, a WILLA Literary Award, and the American Book Award. It is a Montana Book Award Honor Book and was chosen by Barnes and Noble as part of its "Discover Great New Writers" series. [from: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/earling_debra_magpie.html]
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