A Keynote Address by David Treuer
August 22, 2008
Ritsche Auditorium, Stewart Hall
CETL Keynote Address Fall Convocation 2008
David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Canada, a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the Penn West prize in 1999. Treuer has completed his third novel, The Translation of Dr. Apelles. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Minneapolis. The son of Robert Treuer, an Austrian Jew and holocaust survivor and Margaret Seelye Treuer, a tribal court judge, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation. After graduating from high school he attended Princeton University where he wrote two senior theses—one in anthropology and one in creative writing— where he worked with Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, and Joanna Scott. Treuer graduated in 1992 and published his first novel, Little, in 1995. He received his PhD in anthropology and published his second novel, The Hiawatha, in 1999. His novels have been translated into Norwegian, Finnish, French, and Greek.
- Watch this presentation: Streaming Video
- Download the audio of this presentation: MP3
