Highway, Tomson, 1951-
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Name (Latin)
Highway, Tomson, 1951-
Date of birth
1951-12-06
Place of birth
Brochet (Man.)
Associated country
Canada
Occupation
childrens author
Dramatists
Novelists
Children's author
Associated Language
engcre
Gender
male
Language
engcre
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His The rez sisters, 1988:
- His Kiss of the fur queen, 2000:
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Wikipedia description:
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.
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