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Sherman Alexie ist ein indianisch-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Humorist und Drehbuchautor. Er stammt von den Stämmen der Spokane und Coeur d'Alene ab. Alexie setzt sich in vielen seinen Werken schonungslos und schwarzhumorig mit den oft trostlosen Zuständen in den Reservaten und der Lebensrealität der Stadtindianer auseinander. Über sich selbst sagt Alexie: "I write about the kind of Indian I am: kind of mixed up, kind of odd, not traditional. I'm a rez kid who's gone urban" .

Viele Werke Alexies wurden ausgezeichnet: Reservation Blues, sein erster Roman, wurde 1996 mit dem American Book Award ausgezeichnet, für seinen semi-biographischen Jugendroman The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian erhielt Alexie 2007 den National Book Award for Young People's Literature sowie den schwedischen Peter Pan Preis und seine Kurzgeschichtensammlung War Dances gewann 2010 den PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Seit 2015 ist er Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Oktober 1966  •  Andere Namen شرمن الکسی, شيرمان أليكسي
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“Is God a man or a woman?
God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.”

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Sherman Alexie buch Reservation Blues

Quelle: Reservation Blues

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.”

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Sherman Alexie buch The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Quelle: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.”

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Sherman Alexie buch The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Quelle: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.”

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Sherman Alexie buch The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993)

“I think I was born with a suitcase.”

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Sherman Alexie buch The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Quelle: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“The ordinary can be like medicine.”

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Sherman Alexie buch The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Quelle: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“I drew because words were too unpredictable.”

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Sherman Alexie buch The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Quelle: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“He hated to leave, but he loved his work. He was a man, and men needed to work. More sexism! More masculine tunnel vision! More need for gender-sensitivity workshops!”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“[Flying into Baltimore after 9/11] I didn't want to see some pacifist, vegan, whole-wheat, free-range, organic, progressive, gray-ponytail, communist, liberal, draft-dodging, NPR-listening wimp! What are they going to do if somebody tries to hijack the plane? Throw a Birkenstock at him? Offer him some pot?…I was hoping for about twenty-five NRA-loving, gun-nut, serial-killing, psychopathic, Ollie North, Norman Schwarzkopf, right-wing, Agent Orange, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, CIA, FBI, automatic-weapon, smart-bomb, laser-sighting bastards!”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“Nurse: You guys are like the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Thomas: We're more like Tonto and Tonto.”

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Sherman Alexie

Smoke Signals (1998)

“Oh, I'm sorry, sir, if I offended you. I am not anti-Semitic. I love all of my brothers and sisters. Jews, Catholics, Buddhists, even the atheists, I love them all. Like you Americans sing, 'Joy to the world and Jeremiah Bullfrog!”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast.”

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Smoke Signals (1998)

“Victor: White people won't respect you if you don't look mean. You have to look like a warrior, like you just got back from killing a buffalo.
Thomas: But our tribe never hunted buffalo. We were fishermen.
Victor: What, you want to look like you just caught a fish? This isn't Dances with Salmon, you know!”

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Smoke Signals (1998)

“He wondered if she would dream about a man who never left her, about some unemployed agoraphobic Indian warrior who liked to wash dishes.”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“Thomas: Hey Victor! I'm sorry 'bout your dad.
Victor: How'd you hear about it?
Thomas: I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight. And your mom was just in here cryin.”

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Smoke Signals (1998)

“William always scanned the airports and airplanes for little brown guys who reeked of fundamentalism. That meant William was equally afraid of Osama bin Laden and Jerry Falwell wearing the last vestiges of a summer tan. William himself was a little brown guy, so the other travelers were always sniffing around him, but he smelled only of Dove soap, Mennen deoderant, and sarcasm.”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“I don't want long hair, I don't want short hair, I don't want hair at all, and I don't want to be a girl or a boy, I want to be a yellow-orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.”

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Ten Little Indians (2003)

“Victor: Get Stoic.”

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Sherman Alexie

Smoke Signals (1998)

“I knew — because of my race, and my class, and rural geography … all these forces that crush all sorts of American kids, crush their hopes and dreams — I knew I had no chance unless I left and went to a better school.”

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Sherman Alexie

On Alexie’s realization that the school on his reservation offered few educational opportunities in “Sherman Alexie Says He's Been 'Indian Du Jour' For A 'Very Long Day'” http://www.npr.org/2017/06/20/533653471/sherman-alexie-says-hes-been-indian-du-jour-for-a-very-long-day in NPR (2017 Jun 20)

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