![]() ![]() A critically acclaimed memoir entitled For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son arrived in October 2002, Dream Wheels in 2006, and the novel Ragged Company and his acclaimed and bestselling memoir One Native Life (Douglas & McIntyre) in 2008. His first books were an anthology of newspaper columns, The Terrible Summer ( Warwick Press, 1996) and his first and second novels, Keeper’n Me and A Quality of Light (both Doubleday Canada Schneekluth, Germany). ![]() Additionally, One Native Life was one of The Globe and Mail ’s 100 Best Books of 2008 and One Story, One Song was awarded the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature in 2011. Martin’s Press, USA Bruna, Holland) in 2007. He won the Alberta Writers Guild Best Novel Award for his debut novel, Keeper’n Me in 1994 and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction for his third novel Dream Wheels, (Doubleday, Canada St. ![]() ![]() An Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Natio n in Northwestern Ontario, he became the first Native Canadian to win a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing in 1991. He was a success in every genre of writing he tried. A professional writer since 1979, he was a newspaper columnist and reporter, radio and television broadcaster and producer, documentary producer and the author of fourteen titles from various Canadian publishers. Richard Wagamese was one of Canada’s foremost Indigenous authors and an esteemed public speaker and storyteller. ![]()
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