Louise


Erdrich

Louise Erdrich

[ID: Louise, a woman with a fair complexion and shoulder-length black hair, smiles softly into the camera. She wears a black button-up shirt and rimless glasses.]

2022 Berresford Prize Awardee
Writer, Bookseller, Artist, and Native Arts Advocate
Minneapolis, MN
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Louise Erdrich is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Night Watchman. Her novel, The Round House, won the National Book Award for fiction, and her first novel, Love Medicine, as well as her novel LaRose, won The National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Those novels are concerned with love, with justice, and with the ongoing fight for sovereignty for Native American people. She is Anishinabe, and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Erdrich lives with her family in Minnesota, and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

Photo by Jenn Ackerman.

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  • Artwork by Louise Erdrich
    Birchbark Books storefront. Photo courtesy of the artist.
    [ID: Photo of the outside of Birchbark Books store. Many books are on display behind the glass windows. Green plants and flowers are lined up under the windows, and a blue chair sits out front. A white mailbox with the words “Little Free Native Seed Library” hand-painted on the side stands up in the foreground.]
  • Artwork by Louise Erdrich
    Birchbark Books storefront. Photo courtesy of the artist.
    [ID: An alternate view of the Birchbark storefront, which shows colorful clothing and artwork on display inside the windows and potted plants lining the exterior wall. A chalkboard sign welcomes visitors with the message “our door is open: come on in!” ]
  • Artwork by Louise Erdrich
    Louise Erdrich with U.S. representative Sharice Davids and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan in Birchbark Books. Photo courtesy of the artist.
    [ID: Louise stands on the right with two women on her left who smile broadly at the camera. They are framed in front of shelves lined with many books.]
Artwork by Louise Erdrich Artwork by Louise Erdrich Artwork by Louise Erdrich