Awards & Winners

Joseph Bruchac

Date of Birth 16-October-1942
Place of Birth Saratoga Springs
(New York, New York City, Saratoga County)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist, Poet, Author
Joseph Bruchac is a writer of books relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American and Anglo-American lives and folklore. He has published poetry, novels, and short stories. Bruchac is from Saratoga Springs, New York, and is of Abenaki, English, and Slovak ethnicity. Among his works are the novel Dawn Land and its sequel, Long River, which feature a young Abenaki man before European contact.

Awards by Joseph Bruchac

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joseph Bruchac.

2007


Spur Award for Best Juvenile Fiction
Honored for : Geronimo

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Hidden roots
6 up

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children The Heart of a Chief

1984


American Book Awards
Honored for : Breaking Silence