Louise Erdrich has just been selected as the Pulizer Prize winner for fiction for 2021 for her book The Night Watchman. Ms. Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has drawn upon her background and blended the traditions of oral and written storytelling in her writing. She based The Night Watchman on the life of her maternal grandfather, a night watchman whose reservation in rural North Dakota was threatened in the 1950s by congressional legislation. Pulitzer judges called called Erdrich's novel "a majestic, polyphonic novel about a community's efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes".
This is the first Pulitzer for Erdrich who turned 67 this week and has been a published author for more than 40 years. Her previous honors include a National Book Award for The Round House and the National Book Critics Circle prize for LaRose.
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