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Louise Erdrich is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe .Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House. She was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival in September 2015. She was married to author Michael Dorris and the two collaborated on a number of works. The couple separated in 1995.

She is also the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis that focuses on Native American literature and the Native community in the Twin Cities. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. June 1954  •  Other names لوییز اردریچ, Луїс Ердріч
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Works

The Round House
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
The Master Butchers Singing Club
The Round House
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich: 25 quotes13 likes

Famous Louise Erdrich Quotes

“So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

“some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: Tales of Burning Love

“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task… tremendous and foolish and human.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Louise Erdrich Quotes

“Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.”

Louise Erdrich book Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Plague of Doves

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Bingo Palace

“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: Tales of Burning Love

“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.”

Louise Erdrich

“Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Painted Drum

“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Plague of Doves

“Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

“When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

“… which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Painted Drum

“Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.”

Louise Erdrich book Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

“The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

“We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.”

Louise Erdrich book The Master Butchers Singing Club

Source: The Master Butchers Singing Club

“Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

“Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.”

Louise Erdrich

Source: The Plague of Doves

“What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.”

Louise Erdrich

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