Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-

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Name (Latin)
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
Other forms of name
Marmon Silko, Leslie, 1948-
Silko, Leslie, 1948-
Date of birth
1948-03-05
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Fiction
Novels
Poetry
Occupation
Novelists
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 41868880
Wikidata: Q273001
Library of congress: n 80093635
OCoLC: oca00474713
Sources of Information
  • Laguna woman, c1974.
  • Literature online, 15 June 2011(Leslie Silko, born 5 March 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ; American novelist and poet)
  • OCLC, 8 July 2011(usage: 80% Leslie Marmon Silko; 20% Leslie Silko)
  • Reading Leslie Marmon Silko, c2007:p. 7 (Laguna, b. 1949)
  • Her Laguna woman, c1974.
  • Seyersted, P. Leslie Marmon Silko, c1980:t.p. (Leslie Marmon Silko)
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Wikipedia description:

Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer. A woman of Laguna Pueblo descent, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981, the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2020. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.

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