Tanya Talaga | |
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| Nationality | Anishinaabe, Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
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| Notable work | Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward |
Tanya Talaga is a Canadian journalist and author of Anishinaabe and Polish descent. She worked as a journalist at the Toronto Star for over twenty years, covering health, education, local issues, and investigations. She is now a regular columnist with the Globe and Mail.[1] Her 2017 book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City was met with acclaim, winning the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction and the 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.[2][3] Talaga is the first woman of Anishinaabe descent to be named a CBC Massey Lecturer. She holds honorary doctorates from Lakehead University and from Ryerson University.[1]