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Sherman Alexie

Sponsored by WritersCorps

Monday, December 1, 2008  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, filmmaker and, most prominently, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian. Through his novels, poetry and films Alexie has served as one of the strongest Native voices in the United States in the past century. The Boston Globe said of his first short-story collection, "These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts." Alexie's uses humor to both honor and criticize Reservation culture in all eighteen of his works of fiction. This engrossing blend of levity and social analysis is evident in Alexie's description of his New York Times Notable Book, Indian Killer, which he calls "A feel-good novel about interracial murder." The popular independent film, Smoke Signals, is an adaptation of Alexie's short stories and is filled with the same lively, offbeat characters and mournful undertones that populate his written work. His most recent book, a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood both on and off the reservation, titled The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, won the National Book Award prize for Young People's literature in 2007.

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