Tomson Highway | |
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.jpg) Highway in 2018 | |
| Born | 6 December 1951 Manitoba, Canada |
| Occupation | Playwright, novelist, children's author, pianist |
| Language | English, Cree |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario |
| Notable works | The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Kiss of the Fur Queen |
| Notable awards | Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Floyd S. Chalmers Award Winner of the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Permanent Astonishment, a Memoir. The book chronicles the first 15 years of Highways life in the remote Subarctic. |
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| tomsonhighway | |
Tomson Highway OC (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, children's author and musician. He is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award.[1]
Highway also published a novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway's death of AIDS.[1] He wrote the libretto for the first Cree language opera, The Journey or Pimooteewin.