| Date of Birth | 05-March-1948 | |
| Place of Birth |
Albuquerque (United States of America, New Mexico, Bernalillo County, Area code 505) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Also know as | Leslie Marmon | |
| Profession | Writer, Novelist | |
| Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. Silko was an original recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant, now known as the "Genius Grant", in 1981 and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona. | ||
Awards by Leslie Marmon Silko |
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| Check all the awards nominated and won by Leslie Marmon Silko. | ||
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