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Collection: 00931 - North Dakota Authors
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 00009_01
Title: David R. Solheim at the opening of the Language of the Land: Journey into Literary North Dakota presentation at the ND Heritage Center
Date: 2/4/1994
Creator: Strand, Todd
Summary: David R. Solheim attending the opening of the Language of the Land: Journey into Literary North Dakota presentation at the ND Heritage Center. [biography] Dr. David R. Solheim (1947-) was born in Elgin (N.D.) and raised in Bismarck (N.D.), graduating from Bismarck High School in 1965. He has published poetry in over a dozen literary periodicals. In addition to the books: Riverbend: Poems, The landscape listens: Poems, We're the People Too: Tales from America's Largest Minority, Green Jade and Road Men, West River: 100 Poems, the Territorial Press (MN) published two chapbooks of his work, On The Ward (1973) and Inheritance (1987). His work has also been included in several anthologies. He received the John Hove Writing Fellowship from the North Dakota Council on the Arts and was an international exchange artist in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the North Dakota Statehood Centennial Poet and is an Emeritus Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota. He has also published an interview, book reviews, and essays in several periodicals and edited anthologies of creative writing. Solheim also had an award-winning teaching career of over 30 years, most of them at Dickinson State University and is a DSU Emeritus Professor of English. He traveled to the Peoples’ Republic of China with a North Dakota University System Faculty Group and was a visiting professor at Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University in Yang-ling, China. He has conducted creative writing workshops for kindergarten through graduate students, and for the general public including the elderly. He holds degrees in English and creative writing from Gustavus Adolphus College, Stanford University, and the University of Denver. In 1968 Solheim married Joan Senzek, also a member of the Bismarck High School class of 1965, and they remained together until her death in 1997. Dave and Joan have two children, Benjamin Sung Ho and Julia Joo Hyun. In 2001 Dave married Dr. Barbara Laman (also an Emeritus Professor of English at DSU), together they have 5 children and 5 grandchildren. They live in St. Peter, MN.
Red ID: PH_I_193307 Image ID: 172740 Image Notes: 00931-00009-01

Collection: 00931 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Authors
Date: 1970-1996

Summary: Collection of photographs of North Dakota authors used in exhibit on North Dakota authors or taken during the opening of the Language of the Land: Journey into Literary North Dakota presentation at the ND Heritage Center. The "Language of the Land" traveling exhibition was seen at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck from Feb. 4 to March 27, 1994. It was sponsored by the North Dakota Center for the Book and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Using funds from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and additional funding from the North Dakota Humanities Council, the North Dakota Community Foundation and Maxwell's Books, the sponsors presented weekly lectures by North Dakota authors. The speakers were Kathie Ryckman Anderson, Larry Woiwode, David Solheim, Larry Watson, Louise Erdrich, Lois Phillips Hudson, Kathleen Norris and Richard Critchfield. Each lecture was taped for broadcast on both radio and television, and interviews with the authors were aired on Prairie Public Radio and community access television. A state literary map depicting 10 North Dakota writers and listing more than 100 writers who have either lived in North Dakota or written about the state was compiled and made available. A bibliography of North Dakota authors was also compiled and made available. For information, write the North Dakota Center for the Book, North Dakota State Library, 604 E. Boulevard, Bismarck, ND 58505-0800.

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