River Woman - Vermette, Katherena

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Auteur(s) : Vermette, Katherena

Editeur : House Of Anansi Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 112

Expédition : 141

Dimensions : 21.6 x 14.1 x 1.0

ISBN : 9781487003463

Résumé :

Award-winning M?tis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette's second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature - its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.

Biographie:

KATHERENA VERMETTE is a M?tis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the M?tis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses Company), won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Her NFB short documentary, this river, won the Coup de Coeur at the Montreal First Peoples Festival and a Canadian Screen Award. Her first novel, The Break, is the winner of three Manitoba Book Awards and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and it was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads.

Sommaire:

KATHERENA VERMETTE (she/her) is a Red River M?tis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory. Her father's roots run deep in this land, dating back over two centuries, and her mother's side is Mennonite.

Vermette received the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs, and wide acclaim for her second collection of poems, river woman. The Break, a novel, won many awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Katherena lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River.