Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer. A Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981. the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2020. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.
Leslie Silko
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Leslie M. Silko, Leslie Silko, レスリー・マーモン シルコウ, and 2 others
Leslie Marmon Silko, レスリー・M シルコウ - Born:
- Jan. 24, 1948
