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For The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian:
2008 Washington Book Award - the Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award for middle grades and young adults
2008 Boston GlobeHorn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature in Fiction
2008 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children
2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Children's Literature Honor Book
2008 Pacific Northwest Book Award
2008 American Indian Library Association American Indian Youth Literature Award
2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
2007 Los Angles Times Book Prize Finalist
Publishers Weekly 2007 Best Books of the Year - Children's Fiction
The New York Times Notable Children's Books of 2007
Los Angeles Times Favorite Children's Books of 2007
National Parenting Publication Gold Winner 2007
Amazon.com Best Books of 2007
Barnes & Noble 2007 Best for Teens
School Library Journal Best Books of 2007
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books of 2007 (pdf file)
Horn Book Fanfare Best Books of 2007
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Winner
Kansas City Star's Top 100 Books of the Year
For Ten Little Indians:
June 2003 Publishers Weekly editors' pick
2003 USA Today summer books pick
2003 Los Angeles Times Best of the Best Selection
2003 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book
2003 Publishers Weekly Book of the Year
2003 San Jose Mercury News Best Book and Top 20 Fiction Selection
2003 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller
2003 Denver Post Best Seller
2003 Book Sense Best Seller
2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction finalist
2004 Washington State Book Award finalist
The Best American Short Stories 2004 includes What You Pawn I Will Redeem
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 includes What You Pawn I Will Redeem
For The Business of Fancydancing (film):
2002 Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival
2002 Durango Film Festival, Best Narrative Feature Film
2002 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Audience Award Winner
2002 Los Angeles Outfest Outstanding Screenwriting Award
2002 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Audience Award Winner
For The Toughest Indian in the World:
2000 National Magazine Award nomination for "The Toughest Indian in the World"
2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Finalist
2001 PEN USA West Fiction Award Finalist
2001 PEN/Malamud Award
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Sherman J. Alexie, Jr., was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, WA. Approximately 1,100 Spokane Tribal members live there.
Born hydrocephalic, which means with water on the brain, Alexie underwent a brain operation at the age of 6 months and was not expected to survive. When he did beat the odds, doctors predicted he would live with severe mental retardation. Though he showed no signs of this, he suffered severe side effects, such as seizures, throughout his childhood. In spite of all he had to overcome, Alexie learned to read by age three, and devoured novels, such as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, by age five. All these things ostracized him from his peers, though, and he was often the brunt of other kids' jokes on the reservation.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
young adult novel
2007
Flight
novel
2007
Dangerous Astronomy
poetry
2005
Il powwow della fine del mondo
poetry
2005
Ten Little Indians
stories
2003
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49?
Written by Sherman Alexie
Directed by Eric Frith
Produced independently in 2003
Now playing in film festivals
The Business of Fancydancing
Written and directed by Sherman Alexie
Produced independently in 2002
Released on DVD and VHS by Wellspring in 2003
Now available for lease
Smoke Signals
Written by Sherman Alexie
Directed by Chris Eyre
Released by Miramax Films, June 1999
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