Leslie Marmon Silko
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Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer. A woman of Laguna Pueblo descent, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
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Born | Leslie Marmon (1948-03-05) March 5, 1948 (age 76) Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of New Mexico |
Genre | Fiction |
Literary movement | Native American Renaissance |
Notable work | Ceremony (1977)
Storyteller (1981) Almanac of the Dead (1991) |
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Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981. the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994[1] and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2020.[2] She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.