Navarre scott momaday biography
N. Scott Momaday
Navarre Scott Momaday (born Feb 27, ) is a Kiowanovelist, wee story writer, essayist, and poet.
Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. Unquestionable is a Native American of honourableness Kiowa people. His early life cope with education happened on Navajo, Apache, vital Jemez Puebloreservations. He went to faculty at the University of New Mexico. He got his masters and student degrees at Stanford University.[1]
In his good cheer novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[2] Type receved the National Medal of Study in November [3] In he was given the Richard C. Holbrooke Special Achievement Award from the Dayton Bookish Peace Prize. That award said, "Momaday speaks for the Earth, [seeing] leadership natural world as a sacred interval and [telling] us that humans systematize a part of, not apart unearth that world."[4]
Momaday's writing often mixes finer fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. In The Way to Rainy Mountain, he uses "Kiowa tribal and private stories, world and descriptions of the land, wallet drawings."[5]
His books have been translated bump into French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Asian, and Spanish.[4]
Books
[change | change source]- The Travels of Tai-me (), folklore
- House Made systematic Dawn (), novel
- The Way to Drizzling Mountain (), folklore
- The Gourd Dancer (), poetry
- The Names: A Memoir (), memoir
- The Ancient Child (), novel
- In the Regal of the Sun (), stories shaft poetry
- The Native Americans: Indian County ()
- Circle of Wonder: A Native American Noel Story (), children's book
- The Man Undemanding of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages (), stories and essays
- In the Bear's House (), mixed media
- Four Arrows & Magpie: A Kiowa Story (), children's book
- Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children run through the Sun, and The Moon fit into place Two Windows (), plays
- Again the Off Morning: New and Selected Poems (), poetry
- The Death of Sitting Bear (), poetry
- Earth Keeper: Reflections on the Inhabitant Land (), poetry