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2008年1月30日 · Charles (Charlie) Edenshaw ( Haida name, Tahayren), Haida chief and master artist (born 1839 in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, BC; died 10 September 1920 in Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC). Edenshaw was among the first professional Haida artists.
- Early Life and Education
- Writing Career
- Awards and Honours
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Eden Robinson was born in Kitimat General Hospital and raised in Kitamaat Village, home to members of the Haisla Nation. Her mother, who is Heiltsuk, met her father, a Haisla man, at a fishing stop in Bella Bella, the traditional home of the Heiltsuk First Nation. The two raised their family, including Robinson and her older brother and younger sis...
Eden Robinson’s first book, Traplines (1996), is a collection of three short stories and a novella (a short novel). Robinson’s young narrators recount haunting tales of their disturbing relationships with sociopaths and psychopaths. The collection won Britain’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for the best regional work by a Commonwealthwriter. Monke...
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel Monkey Beach(2001) University of Victoria’s Distinguished Alumni Award (2001) Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work (2016) Writers' Trust Fellowship (2017)
Traplines(1996) Monkey Beach(2000) Blood Sports(2006) Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling(2011) Son of a Trickster(2017)
Robinson is one of the most prominent living female Indigenous writers in Canada. Her stories and novels are highly entertaining, gritty and original literary works that probe significant issues facing contemporary Indigenous life in Canada: the enduring tragedy of residential schools, inter-generational violence and the destruction of traditional ...
