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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 Canadian Authors Awards, originally known as Canadian Authors Association or CAA Awards and now occasionally called Literary Awards, were created in 1975 to fill in for the Governor General’s medals, as these were overtaken by the Canada Council for the Arts, and were presented in multiple categories to authors who are Canadian born or permanent residents. [1]
Hartmut Lutz (born April 26, 1945) is professor emeritus and former chair of American and Canadian studies: Anglophone literatures and cultures of North America at the University of Greifswald, Germany. He is the founder of the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, a research centre for Canadian and American literature studies at Greifswald.
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 ...
Valued at $30,000, the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award is Canada's biggest literary prize for children's literature. Nicola I. Campbell's Shi-Shi-Etko was a finalist in 2006, but the book's sequel Shi-Chi's Canoe won the grand prize in 2009. [ 26 ]
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.
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.
Julie Flett is a Cree-Métis author and illustrator, known for her work in children's literature centered around the life and cultures of Indigenous Canadians. [1] Flett is best known for her illustrations in books such as Little You, and When We were Alone, as well as for her written work in books such as Birdsong.