October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Search Results by tag: Aboriginal publishing
CODE, the literary development agency, has revealed the winners of its third annual Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature in celebration of indigenous authorship. A jury of Canadian authors chosen by the ... Read More »
From Aug. 11–14, staff from Toronto’s Kids Can Press and parent company Corus Entertainment teamed up with Frontier College, a non-profit literacy organization aimed at aboriginal communities, for a classroom refurbishment project in Cat Lake ... Read More »
September 22, 2015 | Filed under: Book news
Renowned Anishnaabe historian, cultural leader, and author Basil H. Johnston passed away Sept. 8 at age 86. Johnston's ouevre started with volumes and cassettes about the Anishnaabe language in the 1980s, followed by a number of ... Read More »
September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
The Ontario Arts Council has named playwright and poet Daniel David Moses the winner of its $10,000 Aboriginal Arts Award. Founded in 2012, the prize recognizes work of excellence by Ontario First Nations artists. It ... Read More »
June 18, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Racial prejudices continue to fester in Edmonton, home to Canada’s second-largest aboriginal population, and the setting for Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings’ graphic novel The Outside Circle, published by House of Anansi Press. For the ... Read More »
April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Authors
Launched in 1981, Theytus Books – Canada’s first indigenous-owned publishing house – has played a pivotal role in developing the country’s canon of aboriginal literature. Theytus editor-in-chief Paul Seesequasis gives some insight into the press. ... Read More »
March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, People
Penguin Canada released a limited-edition anthology on Monday in support of Amnesty International's No More Stolen Sisters campaign, to which all of the book's proceeds will go. Edited by Joseph Boyden, Kwe: Standing With Our ... Read More »
In 2007, novelist Joseph Boyden and translator Greg Spence spent a week at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre working on a Cree-language edition of Boyden’s acclaimed first novel, Three Day Road (Penguin Canada). “A ... Read More »
November 11, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture
For the first time, Mi’kmaq students in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton are reading Robert Munsch in their own language. “We need to do as much as we can so kids can see themselves in ... Read More »
November 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children's publishing
As a kid, David Alexander Robertson felt detached from his Swampy Cree heritage. But as the Winnipeg writer-educator grew older, he felt more of a need to connect with his culture. Hoping to instill the ... Read More »
November 11, 2014 | Filed under: Authors