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Leslie Marmon Silko

(born 1948) Poet and novelist of mixed Native American, Mexican and Euro-American parentage, raised on the Pueblo Indian reservation. Her novels have explored the oral traditions of the Laguna peoples, before the arrival of whites or in deep cultural conflict with them. In Ceremony (1977), Storyteller (1981), Almanac of the Dead (1991) and other works, she defines and champions alternative voices of American storytelling.

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  • (Manila, Philippines)

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