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Cherokee author named to shortlist for National Book Award
Brandon Hobson, a citizen
of the Cherokee Nation, is up for a National Book Award.
Hobson landed on the National Book Foundation's shortlist for fiction, announced on Thursday. He was selected for Where the Dead Sit Talking, his fourth book.
Set in rural Oklahoma, Where the Dead Sit Talking focuses on two young Natives --- 15-year-old Sequoyah and 17-year-old Rosemary -- who bond while in foster care. The work has received praise in the literary media.
“Hobson’s narrative control is stunning," Publishers Weekly wrote in a December 2017 review. "Far more than a mere coming-of-age story, this is a remarkable and moving novel."
Hobson, who was a 2016 recipient of a Pushcart Prize, is among five finalists for the National Book Award in fiction. He will learn whether he is the winner on November 14.
Tommy Orange, a
citizen of the Cheyenne and
Arapaho Tribes, also had landed National Book Foundation's longlist for fiction. He was not named a finalist but he is up for the First
Novel Prize from The Center for Fiction, whose winner will be announced on
December
11.
Though Orange was passed over, the National Book Foundation named an Indian-themed book to its Nonfiction shortlist. The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation explores the relationship between Indian nations and George Washington, who was the first president of the United States.
The book, which was written by Colin G. Calloway, a professor in Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, shows how Washington portrayed himself as the "great father" to Indian nations. Iroquois leaders, though, had another name for him: the "Town Destroyer" because of his and his family's negative dealings with their peoples.
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