Sunday March 12, 2017 3pm
Literary
andrea.schwenke.wyile@acadiau.ca
(902)585-1502 (Acadia English Dept.)
Winner of the 2016 Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla territory near Kitamaat Village, British Columbia. “I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.” As a Native Canadian writer, Robinson joins the ranks of novelists Thomas King, Tomson Highway, Richard Wagamese and Lee Maracle, non-fiction author and poet Gregory Scofield, and playwrights Daniel David Moses and Drew Hayden Taylor in describing Native traditions and modern realities with beautiful, honest language and biting black humour.
Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and named a notable book by The Globe and Mail. Her most recent novel is Son of a Trickster (Feb. 7, 2017).
Eden Robinson has become one of Canada’s first female Native writers to gain international attention, making her an important role model. Monkey Beach evinces a love of her culture – Robinson maintains that if you don’t grow up on Oolichan grease, you’re not going to learn to love it, never mind make it; and if you grow up on supermarket vegetables, you’ re not going to learn when and where to find salmonberry shoots. She has used her celebrity to draw attention in Time magazine to the Canadian government’s chipping away at Native health care, and to the lack of subsidized housing for urban Natives. This limited housing leads to overcrowding on reserves, where there is little access to jobs. Robinson argues that Natives forfeited rights and land for just these types of government services.
For further info see:
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/25830/eden-robinson
http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Writers--Trust-Notable-Author-Award.aspx
andrea.schwenke.wyile@acadiau.ca
(902)585-1502 (Acadia English Dept.)
Winner of the 2016 Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla territory near Kitamaat Village, British Columbia. “I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.” As a Native Canadian writer, Robinson joins the ranks of novelists Thomas King, Tomson Highway, Richard Wagamese and Lee Maracle, non-fiction author and poet Gregory Scofield, and playwrights Daniel David Moses and Drew Hayden Taylor in describing Native traditions and modern realities with beautiful, honest language and biting black humour.
Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and named a notable book by The Globe and Mail. Her most recent novel is Son of a Trickster (Feb. 7, 2017).
Eden Robinson has become one of Canada’s first female Native writers to gain international attention, making her an important role model. Monkey Beach evinces a love of her culture – Robinson maintains that if you don’t grow up on Oolichan grease, you’re not going to learn to love it, never mind make it; and if you grow up on supermarket vegetables, you’ re not going to learn when and where to find salmonberry shoots. She has used her celebrity to draw attention in Time magazine to the Canadian government’s chipping away at Native health care, and to the lack of subsidized housing for urban Natives. This limited housing leads to overcrowding on reserves, where there is little access to jobs. Robinson argues that Natives forfeited rights and land for just these types of government services.
For further info see:
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/25830/eden-robinson
http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Writers--Trust-Notable-Author-Award.aspx
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