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Emma LaRocque (born 1949) is a Canadian academic of Cree and Métis descent. She is currently a professor of Native American studies at the University of Manitoba. [2]She is also a published poet, writing brief, imagist poems about her ancestral land and culture. [3]
The Periodical Marketers of Canada Aboriginal Literature Award is an Aboriginal Literature award inspired by the First Nation Communities Read Program. This award will give the award winning writers a title selection and a prize money of $5,000. [9]
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]
The Periodical Marketers of Canada Indigenous Literature Awards, also known as the First Nation Communities Read Awards, is an annual Canadian literary award presented to Indigenous Canadian writers. First Nation Communities Read was established in 2003 to help bring awareness to and support First Nation , Métis , and Inuit authors, publishers ...
(Winter 2014) “A Moon Made of Copper,” a book of poetry and non-fiction IBID: A selection of Canadian Poetry from All Lit Up (Spring 2015) The land we are: Artists and Writers unsettle the politics of reconciliation (Spring 2015) Cook’s Ferry Indian Band: Historical Context and Review (June 2016) Abort Magazine: Armstrong Metal Festival ...
Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak (Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᕚᕐᓗᒃ ᑯᓱᒐᖅ) is a Canadian Inuk storyteller and children's writer, who tells stories about Arctic and Inuit culture. He was born April 27, 1948, just north of Chesterfield Inlet , at a point of land called Qatiktalik (known as Cape Fullterton in English).
In her study of Native literature, Penny Petrone includes Armstrong amongst a young generation of university-trained Aboriginal authors who contributed to original creative works to Canadian literature during the 1980s (138). Critical analysis of Armstrong has generally studied her poetry and, more extensively, her first novel.
Joseph Boyden grew up in Willowdale, North York, Ontario, and attended the Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School.The ninth of eleven children, he is the son of Blanche (Gosling) and Raymond Wilfrid Boyden, [4] [3] a medical officer renowned for his bravery, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was the most highly decorated medical officer of World War II.