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N. Scott Momaday
Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, ) is a Kiowanovelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.
Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma.
Scott momaday quick biography Sign In. Chapter 4, The Dawn Runner. In Momaday's interpretive mind, Jemez became a landscape full of mystery and life, and many of his descriptive details of those childhood days can be found in his later writings. All rights reserved.He is a Native American of the Kiowa people. His early life and education happened on Navajo, Apache, and Jemez Puebloreservations. He went to college at the University of New Mexico. He got his masters and doctoral degrees at Stanford University.[1]
In his first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[2] He receved the National Medal of Arts in November [3] In he was given the Richard C.
Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. That award said, "Momaday speaks for the Earth, [seeing] the natural world as a sacred space and [telling] us that humans are a part of, not apart from that world."[4]
Momaday's writing often mixes up fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
In The Way to Rainy Mountain, he uses "Kiowa tribal and private stories, history and descriptions of the land, and drawings."[5]
His books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese, and Spanish.[4]
Books
[change | change source]- The Journey of Tai-me (), folklore
- House Made of Dawn (), novel
- The Way to Rainy Mountain (), folklore
- The Gourd Dancer (), poetry
- The Names: A Memoir (), memoir
- The Ancient Child (), novel
- In the Presence of the Sun (), stories and poetry
- The Native Americans: Indian County ()
- Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story (), children's book
- The Man Made 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 of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows (), plays
- Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems (), poetry
- The Death of Sitting Bear (), poetry
- Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land (), poetry