With the 1984 publication of her ground-breaking first novel Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich established herself as a significant new voice in contemporary American literature. Drawing on her Chippewa and German-American heritage, Erdrich has produced a body of work whose persuasive mythical landscape and cast of interconnected characters has been compared to the novels of Faulkner and García Márquez. Her work has been credited with bringing the Native American experience into the literary mainstream and inspiring an entire generation of Native American writing. The eleven North Dakota novels – beginning with the Love Medicine tetralogy and moving through to The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003), Four Souls (2004), and The Painted Drum (2005) – constitute a web of complex, absorbing narratives documenting familial, political and social histories over a century of tumultuous change. Erdrich’s dazzling metaphorical gift, charged lyricism and technical daring have won her both critical acclaim and a devoted readership worldwide.

 

 

Also appears in:

Writers International  

Tue 14 Mar, 8pm

Embassy Theatre

Mana Wahine – Strong Women of the Land

Fri 17 Mar, 12.10pm

The National Bank Festival Club

 

Concession Pass to 15 Writers Upfront sessions of your choice: $150 [FR $140]

 

16 Mar, 9:30am