Louise Erdrich on her fiction: 'I'm writing out of the mixture of cultures'

Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans

Novelist Louise Erdrich was presented with the Library of Congress prize for American fiction on Saturday in recognition of her three-decade literary career.

In the Q&A at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, that followed, Erdrich – the author of Tracks, Love Medicine and The Round House and a key figure in contemporary Native American literature – offered insight into the worldview from which she writes, one heavily influenced by her own experiences as a mixed-race Native American.

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