David Treuer, an Ojibwe Indian and prize-winning author, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 23 as part of the Center of the American West's Modern Indian Identity Series.
The talk will take place at 7 p.m. in room 150 in the Eaton Humanities Building on the CU-Boulder campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Treuer is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bush Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of three novels and a collection of essays titled "Native American Fiction: A User's Manual."
His essays and stories have appeared in Esquire, TriQuarterly, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and Slate.com. His third novel, "The Translation of Dr Apelles," was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time Out and City Pages.
The son of a Holocaust survivor and a tribal court judge, Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. After graduating from high school he attended Princeton University. Treuer graduated in 1992 and published his first novel, "Little," in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology and published his second novel, "The Hiawatha," in 1999.
This series features contemporary Indian speakers telling their stories in ways that shatter misconceptions on what it means to be a "real" Indian. The series is made possible by a donation from Nancy and Gary Carlston of Boulder.
For information call the CU-Boulder Center of the American West at 303-492-4879 or visit .