Indigenous Authors
There are so many Canadian Indigenous authors that are producing some amazing work. Continuing with our Indigenous History Month, I am going to give you a list. With a little summary. And some of their titles. Richard Wagamese. Born on October 14, 1955, in Minaki, Ontario. Richard Wagamese was an author and journalist and member of the Ojibway Nation. Indian Horse is probably his best-known work. That book went on to be made into a movie of the same name after Wagemese's death in 2017. It also won the Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature in 2013, as well as being a competing title in that same year's edition of Canada Reads. Indian Horse Eden Robinson Born on January 19, 1968, in Kitimat, BC, Robinson is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Robinson's first book was released in 1995. "Traplines" is a collection of four short stories. That anthology won the Holtby Memorial Prize for best regional work by a commonwealth author...