Louise Erdrich is the author of 15 novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel LaRose won the 2017 the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine (1984), was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
Sonic Spirituality: Louise Erdrich on Postcommodity’s Ceremonial Transformation of LRAD
Novelist Louise Erdrich considers a sound installation by the indigenous collective Postcommodity at documenta that transforms military-grade audio weaponry—recently used against water protectors at Standing Rock—to serve more spiritual ends.