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Richard Wagamese

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Ojibwe writer (1955-2017)

CanadaWritersLived 1955 to 2017 · aged 61
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Richard Wagamese was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario.

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2015Matt Cohen Award
2013Molson Prize

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Richard Wagamese was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario. He was best known for his novel Indian Horse (2012), which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.

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Canada
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1955 to 2017 · aged 61
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7 languages

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