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The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually since 2005 to a First Nations, Inuit or Métis writer for a work published in English in any literary genre. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by the Canadian bookstore chain McNally Robinson.
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 ...
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]
Author George Copway (1818–69) wrote an autobiography titled The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-gah-bowh (1847) telling a story of an Indigenous person having been converted to Christianity. [1] It was the first book written by a Canadian Indigenous person in English.
Danuta Gleed Literary Award for a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English; Dayne Ogilvie Prize for an emerging writer in the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender communities; Doug Wright Awards for graphic literature and novels; Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards for best Canadian play staged by a Canadian ...
The All Complete Aboriginal Show Extravaganza (1994) Girl Who Loved Her Horses (1995) The Baby Blues (1995) 400 Kilometres (1996) Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (1996) alterNatives (1999) Toronto@DreamersRock.com (1999) The Boy in the Treehouse (2000) The Buz’Gem Blues (2001) Sucker Falls (2001) Raven Stole the Sun (2004)
Another theme is Kusugak's focus on home and family, and the essential role of elders, particularly grandmothers. This is common as a way for Aboriginal authors to create positive cultural associations for children, and a positive image of home, which includes ‘the land’ much more than a physical house in Kusugak's stories.
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]