Awards & Winners

Joy Harjo

Date of Birth 09-May-1951
Place of Birth Tulsa
(Oklahoma, Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Osage County, United States of America, Area codes 918 and 539, Area code 918, Area code 539)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Harjo, Joy
Profession Writer, Poet, Musician
Joy Harjo is a Native American poet, musician, and author. She is often cited as playing a formidable role in the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has coined the Native American Renaissance.

Awards by Joy Harjo

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joy Harjo.

2003


Oklahoma Center for the Book Award for Poetry
Honored for : How we became human
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
Honored for : How we became human

2002


Beyond Margins Award
Honored for : A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry A Map to the Next World: Poems

1998


Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Oklahoma Center for the Book Award for Non-Fiction Reinventing the Enemy's Language

1995


Oklahoma Center for the Book Award for Poetry
Honored for : The woman who fell from the sky

1991


American Book Awards
Honored for : In mad love and war