The Round House (2012) won the National Book Award, and Erdrich has received a number of lifetime achievement awards, including the Library of Congress Award for American Fiction. Her first novel, Love Medicine (1984), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, as did her novel LaRose (2016). Born of a German-American father and a mother of Chippewa and French descent, Erdrich has written mainly, but not exclusively, about Native American life, particularly in her home state of North Dakota.
Louise Erdrich is one of America’s most celebrated living authors. Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Night Watchman is an entertaining and edifying historical novel that tells the story of the Turtle Mountain tribe of Chippewa in North Dakota as they fight to survive the US government’s attempt in 19 to “terminate” them. The Night Watchman (Harper Collins, 2020) is American author Louise Erdrich’s 12th novel. The Night Watchman, New York: HarperCollins, 2020, 464 pp.
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