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An Evening with Thomas King

Tuesday Oct 14 2014 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium
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In conversation and signing his new novel The Back of the Turtle (HarperCollins Canada).

Join us as we celebrate Thomas King’s first literary novel in fifteen years, following the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian, and his beloved and iconic Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water. King will be reading from the book and then joined in conversation by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair.

Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and photographer of Cherokee and Greek descent. His acclaimed, bestselling fiction includes Medicine River; Truth and Bright Water; One Good Story, That One; and A Short History of Indians in Canada. In addition to its many award distinctions, Green Grass, Running Water was named to Quill & Quire’s Best Canadian Fiction of the Century list. A member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of an award from the National Aboriginal Foundation, Thomas King recently retired as a professor of English at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

Niigaanwewidom James Sinclair is Anishinaabe and originally from St. Peter’s (Little Peguis) Indian Settlement near Selkirk. He is an award-winning editor and writer and a regular commentator on Indigenous issues on CBC, CTV, and APTN. He is co-editor of the collection The Winter We Danced: Voices of the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. Currently at the University of Manitoba, Niigaan teaches courses in Indigenous literatures, cultures, histories, and politics.

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