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[9] [10] Darrell Dennis, in his book Peace, Pipe Dreams, won the Periodical Marketers of Canada Aboriginal Literature Award for 2015–2016. His book shows knowledge, tact, and humor when addressing issues such as religion, treaties, and residential schools. [11] It gives the reader a better understanding of Canada's complex history. [11]
Canadian Writers – Resource for Canadian authors publishing in English or French – Athabasca University, Alberta Studies in Canadian Literature – University of New Brunswick Dominion of the North: Literary & Print Culture in Canada – An online exhibition celebrating prominent poets, authors, and historians.
David Alexander Robertson (born 12 January 1977) is a Canadian author and public speaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba.He has published over 25 books across a variety of genres and is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award [1] His first novel, The Evolution of Alice, was published in 2014. [2]
This is a list of notable writers who are Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This list includes authors who are Alaskan Native , American Indian , First Nations , Inuit , Métis , and Indigenous peoples of Mexico , the Caribbean, Central America, and South America , as defined by the citizens of these Indigenous nations and tribes.
Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario. [3] He was best known for his novel Indian Horse (2012), which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.
Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh, lit. ' double-life '), [1] was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Carmen Rodríguez (born 1948), Chilean-Canadian author, poet, educator, political social activist, co-founder of Aquelarre Magazine; exiled from Chile after the 1973 coup; writes in both Spanish and English and translates her own work; Janet Marie Rogers, Mohawk First Nations poet [10] Linda Rogers (born 1944), poet and children's writer
A page from a prayer book written in the Carrier syllabics, an Athabascan adaptation of Canadian Aboriginal syllabic writing Athabaskan syllabic scripts were developed in the late 19th century by French Roman Catholic missionaries, who adapted this originally Protestant writing system to languages radically different from the Algonquian languages.