Try our quiz on Indigenous Canadian authors, and increase your knowledge of Canadian literature!1. This Cherokee author won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for the novel The Back of the Turtle.Cherie DimalineThomas KingBernard Assiniwi2. This Innu poet won the 2013 poetry award from the Société des Écrivains francophones d’Amérique for the poetry collection N’entre pas dans mon âme avec tes chaussures.Natasha Kanapé FontaineMarie-Andrée GillJoséphine Bacon3. Monkey Beach, this Haisla author’s debut novel, won the 2001 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia.Monique Gray SmithTomson HighwayEden Robinson4. This Algonquian-Cree author won the 1997 Prix littéraire France-Québec for La saga des Béothuks.Bernard AssiniwiMichel NoëlThomas King5. This Métis author won the 2017 Governor General's Award for young people's literature for the young adult novel The Marrow Thieves.Thomas KingEden RobinsonCherie Dimaline6. This acclaimed Innu poet was a finalist for the 2014 Governor General’s Award for French poetry for her bilingual Innu-French collection Un thé dans la toundra.Natasha Kanapé FontaineJoséphine BaconMonique Gray Smith7. This Cree playwright is best known for the multi-award-winning plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.Michel NoëlCherie DimalineTomson Highway8. This Métis author won the 1997 Governor General’s Award for French children’s literature for the autobiographical novel Pien.Michel NoëlYves Sioui DurandBernard Assiniwi9. This author won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature for the book Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience.Eden RobinsonMonique Gray SmithJoséphine Bacon10. This Huron-Wendat dramatist won the Prix Américanit at Montréal’s 1985 Festival of the Americas for the play Le porteur des peines du monde.Tomson HighwayYves Sioui DurandNatasha Kanapé Fontaine
