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Michelle Good should be celebrating back-to-back awards wins for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she's mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for.
The King of Jam Sandwiches is a very personal book. There are few books for children that present the realities of growing up in poverty so authentically. Your novel is about survival and also about hope. What brings you hope? My wife, my kids, my grandkids. Youâve got to have a sense of hope. Iâm relentlessly optimistic, even when I shouldnât be. This book is so much a part of who I am. Just like the main character Robbie, I really believed that if I got up earlier than everybody every single day and worked harder and longer than everybody else, then I could get somewhere. Th...
Michelle Good says residential school remains cast shadow over GGBooks fiction win Author Michelle Good poses in this undated handout photo. Michelle Good should be celebrating back-to-back awards wins for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she's mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for. Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation west of Saskatoon, was awarded the $25,000 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction on Tuesday for "Five Little Indians," from HarperCollins Publishers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO ...
OTTAWA — Michelle Good should be celebrating back-to-back awards wins for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she’s mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for. Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation west of Saskatoon, was awarded the $25,000 Governor General’s Literary Award for […]
Posted: Jun 01, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: June 1 The winners of the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021. The books above won in the English-language categories.(CBC, Canada Council for the Arts) comments Among the winners is Cree writer Michelle Good for her debut novel Five Little Indians and renowned Canadian American poet Anne Carson for her original work The Governor General's Literary Awards are among Canada's oldest and most prestigious prizes. The awards, worth $25,000 each, annually recognize the best published books in Canada. The seve...