Awards & Winners

Leslie Marmon Silko

Date of Birth 05-March-1948
Place of Birth Albuquerque
(United States of America, New Mexico, Bernalillo County, Area code 505)
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

Check all the awards nominated and won by Leslie Marmon Silko.

1980


American Book Awards
Honored for : Ceremony