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Natalie Diaz

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Natalie Diaz
human
Ein sex anaa genderfemale Edit
Ein country of citizenshipUnited States Edit
Name wey dem give amNatalie Edit
Family nameDiaz Edit
Ein date of birth4 September 1978 Edit
Place dem born amNeedles Edit
Languages edey speak, rep anaa signMojave, English Edit
Ein occupationbasketball player, poet, writer, university teacher Edit
Ein field of workbelletristic literature, American poetry, creative writing, endangered language, Indigenous languages of the Americas Edit
Educate forOld Dominion University Edit
Member give sports teamOld Dominion Monarchs women's basketball Edit
Sportbasketball Edit
Award e receiveAmerican Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Edit
Dema official websitehttps://www.nataliegermainediaz.com Edit

 

Natalie Diaz (dem born am September 4, 1978)[1] be Pulitzer Prize-winning[2] Mojave American poet,[3] language activist, former professional basketball player, den educator. She dey de Gila River Indian Community insyd wey dem dey identify am as Akimel O'odham.[3] She currently be Associate Professor for Arizona State University.[4]

Ein Early life

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Dem born Natalie Diaz insyd Needles, California, for September 4. 1978.[5] She grow for Fort Mojave Indian Village wey dey Needles, California, wey border of California, Arizona, den Nevada top. She go Old Dominion University, wer she play point guard for de women's basketball team insyd, wey she reach de NCAA Final Four as freshman den de bracket of sixteen ein other three years. She get bachelor's degree. After say she play professional basketball insyd Europe and Asia, she return go Old Dominion University, wey she plete MFA insyd poetry den fiction,[6] insyd 2006.[7]

Ein Career

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Ein work appear insyd Narrative, Poetry magazine, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, den Crab Orchard Review.

Diaz ein debut book of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, " dey portray experiences insyd Native American life plus personal den mythic power." Na ebe 2012 Lannan Literary Selection, wey dem shortlist for de 2013 PEN/Open Book Award insyd, wey na she be 2013 American Book Award winner. One important focus of de book be sam sisto wey dey struggle plus ein bro ein addiction plus crystal meth.

Insyd 2012, dem interview am about ein poetry den language rehabilitation work for de PBS NewsHour top.

Insyd 2018, dem name am as de Maxine den Jonathan Marshall Chair insyd Modern den Contemporary Poetry for Arizona State University.

Insyd 2019, na she be faculty for CantoMundo Retreat.

Insyd 2021, ein book Postcolonial Love Poem win de Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Na dem dey bell am "sam collection of tender, heart-wrenching den defiant poems wey explore what edey mean say you go love den say dem go love you for sam America beset insyd by conflict." Na de book sana be finalist give de 2020 National Book Award, sam finalist give de 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, sam finalist give de 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection, wey dem shortlist give de 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.

Ein life matter

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Diaz currently dey stay Mohave Valley, Arizona, wer na she dey work for de language revitalization top for Fort Mojave, ein home reservation. She work plus de last Elder speakers of de Mojave language. She be member of de Gila Indian Community.

Ein Poetry

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  • When My Brother Was an Aztec. Copper Canyon Press. 10 October 2013. ISBN 978-1-61932-033-8.
  • Postcolonial Love Poem. Graywolf Press. 3 March 2020. ISBN 978-1-64445-014-7.

Insyd anthology

  • Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day, eds. (2016). Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Scarlet Tanager Books.  ISBN 978-0976867654
  • Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.

Ein Awards den honors

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Year Nominee / work Award Result
2007 No More Cake Here Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry Won
2007 The Hooferman Tobias Wolff Fiction Prize Won
2012 Poetry Fellow Lannan Literary Fellowship Won
2012 Downhill Triolets Narrative Prize Won
2012 Poetry Scholar Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry Won
2015 Writing Fellow PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship Won
2018 Poetry Fellow MacArthur Fellowship Won
2021 Postcolonial Love Poem Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Won

References

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  1. ↑ "Natalie Diaz". odusports.com. 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  2. ↑ "Poet Natalie Diaz wins Pulitzer Prize". ASU News. Arizona State University. 11 June 2021.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Parmar, Sandeep (2020-07-02). "Natalie Diaz: 'It is an important and dangerous time for language'". The Guardian (in British English). ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  4. ↑ "Natalie Diaz". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Natalie Diaz". Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  6. ↑ "Natalie Diaz". The University of Arizona Poetry Center. poetry.arizona.edu. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
  7. ↑ "ODU Alum Natalie Diaz's Poetry Gets New York Times Attention". Old Dominion University. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
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External videos
video icon Natalie Diaz reads "Ode to the Beloved's Hips" at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival, March 30, 2014
video icon Poet Natalie Diaz Reads From 'When My Brother Was an Aztec', PBS NewsHour, June 20, 2012
Dem retrieve am from "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natalie_Diaz&oldid=53263"