Katherena Vermette on The Strangers
Katherena Vermette + Kate Evans
Auditorium 2, slq
Main Festival
BWF115
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Kate Evans joins Métis poet and novelist katherena vermette to discuss her new book The Strangers, a sweeping epic about a family separated by the system. Examining addiction, foster care and intergenerational trauma, this powerful story insists on the primacy of family and the redemptive power of forgiveness.
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Katherena Vermette
Katherena Vermette (she/her) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis nation—Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Her first book, North End Love Songs, won the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her first novel, The Break, was a national bestseller and won several 2017 awards, including the Amazon First Novel Award, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and McNally Robinson Book of the Year.
She lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River. The Strangers is her second novel.
Kate Evans
Kate Evans hosts The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National (with Cassie McCullagh). She has a PhD in history and way too many books, and regrets neither.
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