Accused of sexual harassment, author Sherman Alexie turns literary prize down

New York (AP) - Sherman Alexei refused Carnegie medals received last month and the American Library Association told the Associated Press on Friday.

Alexi won the $ 5,000 non-fiction prize in a memoir that "You do not have to say that I love me". Since then, he has faced multiple claims of sexual harassment and has issued a statement admitting misconduct.

With details not disclosed, Alexie said, "There is a woman who tells the truth", apologize to the person he was injured.

The Library Association did not immediately comment on whether the decision was made only by Alexie or whether he was asked to cut a prize. I tried to reach Alexie on Friday, but it did not succeed soon. His publisher Hachette Book Group did not immediately answer the comment request

When we announced the Alexie medal in February, ALA wrote, "Write a brave, inspiring, painful, interesting note, telling essays and poetry to his Spokane Indian mother, and many complex traumas I finished my life, that tragedy is like his own struggle. "

The Carnegie Award was founded in 2012 with the award of fiction and nonfiction awards. Colson Whitehead, Donna Tartt, Doris Kearns Goodwin is the former winner

The Association of Libraries said on Friday that it is AP, and this year there is no non - fiction prize. Jennifer Egan 's Manhattan Beach is the novelist' s winner

Recent accusations and revelations have become the forefront of the discussion of the literary circles of Native American / American Indian / African Indians. The White Literature Museum already calls Alexis "a long day of Indian People's Day." After several weeks of discussion at Twitter, some of Alexie's whistleblowers published yesterday to talk to NPR about what they endured. Many of us are looking forward to clearing this abuse in public but we can find ourselves that we can see the door from all directions within an hour and all of them I am running to them.

Sherman Aleksey writer last week announced a statement that he admitted that sexual harassment rumors and allegations began to spread and that he "hurt" others. In the absence of details, Alexie said, "There is a woman telling the truth," he apologized to the injured. Now, some of them tell them about their experiences with NPR. Alexis may not be a surname, but he is one of the most famous native American poets and writers in the country with a charismatic personality and many followers. He won the national book award in 2007 for his young adult novel "The Part-time Indian's Absolute Diary" and based on one of his stories a script for the movie "Smoke Signal" I wrote. So the news about him shocked the world of American Indians and children's literature.