Awards & Winners

Sherman Alexie

Date of Birth 07-October-1966
Place of Birth Wellpinit
(Stevens County, Washington)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr., Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr.
Profession Writer, Comedian, Novelist, Screenwriter, Poet, Film Producer, Film director, Author
Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American with ancestry of several tribes, growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Some of his best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a book of short stories; and Smoke Signals, a film of his screenplay based on that collection. His first novel, Reservation Blues, received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards. His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people. His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, entitled War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Awards by Sherman Alexie

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sherman Alexie.

2010


PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Honored for : War Dances

2007


National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Honored for : The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay Smoke Signals

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Reservation Blues

1996


American Book Awards
Honored for : Reservation Blues