Interview with N. Scott Momaday, Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2023
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Interview with N. Scott Momaday and Dean Nelson as part of the 2023 Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Writing That Celebrates.
Navarre Scott Momaday received a Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "House Made of Dawn". His books include "The Way to Rainy Mountain", "In the Bear's House", "In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems", "1961-1991", and "The Gourd Dancer". He is author of several other novels, prose collections, the children's book "Circle of Wonder", and the play "The Indolent Boys". He is also the editor of various anthologies and collections centered on his Kiowa heritage.
Momaday's honors include the 2019 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, awarded by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation to celebrate lifetime achievement in literature and to remind the world "that peace can be forged with words." He has also received the 2019 Ken Burns American Heritage Prize, the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, an Academy of American Poets Prize, an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Premio Letterario Internationale "Mondello," Italy's highest literary award.
Included in the ticket is live music from John Reynolds' Jazz Quintet to begin at 6:15 p.m., when doors open for general admission seating.
The 28th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be February 21-24, 2023, also featuring Pulitzer winning writers Maria Hinojosa, Anthony Doerr and William Finnegan. For more info, visit here!
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