Tomson Highway
1951
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Canada
educated at: Western University
occupation: writer, novelist, musicologist, librettist, playwright, songwriter, children's writer
award received: Member of the Order of Canada, Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Officer of the Order of Canada
official website: tomsonhighway.com
Tomson Highway (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, children's author and musician. He is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award.Highway also published a novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway's death of AIDS. He wrote the libretto for the first Cree language opera, The Journey or Pimooteewin. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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