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Katherena Vermette is a Canadian poet, children's literature author, anthologist, and documentary filmmaker. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is of Métis and Cree descent. She is the author of the poetry collection North End Love Songs, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 2013. She is also the author of the children's books A Girl Called Echo, The Seven Teachings Stories, and The Girl and the Wolf. She has also co-edited the anthologies Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water and Love Beyond: The Indigenous LGBTQ2+ Siletz Collection.
Vermette has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Public Library, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and the University of Alberta. She is currently a professor at the University of Winnipeg.
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47 years old |
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29 January 1977 |
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29 January |
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
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Canada |
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In 2017, Vermette won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for The Break. Its French translation, Ligne brisée, was defended by Naomi Fontaine in the 2018 edition of Le Combat des livres, where it won the competition.
Her debut novel The Break was published in 2016, and was a shortlisted finalist for that year's Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. In November 2017, it won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature.
Vermette's children's picture book series The Seven Teachings Stories was published by Portage and Main Press in 2015. Illustrated by Irene Kuziw, the collection aims to present the Anishnaabe Teachings of the Seven Grandfathers in a way that is easily digestible for young people. The series depicts Indigenous children in a metropolitan context, fostering a sense of representation for historically and continually marginalized Indigenous groups, among those who they are, and have been, marginalized by. The series comprises seven individual volumes: The Just Right Gift, Singing Sisters, The First Day, Kode's Quest(ion), Amik Loves School, Misaabe's Stories, and What is Truth, Betsy?.
In 2015, she and Erika MacPherson co-directed the 20-minute National Film Board of Canada documentary This River, about Canadian Indigenous families that have had to search for family members who have disappeared. Partly based on Vermette's own experience, the film received the 2016 Coup de coeur du jury award at Montreal's Présence autochtone [fr] festival, and premiered in Vermette's hometown of Winnipeg on October 5, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It was named best short documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards. Vermette and NFB producer Alicia Smith also created a related Instagram work, What Brings Us Here, a companion piece to The River, which offers portraits of volunteers behind the community-run Winnipeg search teams the Bear Clan and Drag the Red. Smith has stated that it was Vermette's North End Love Songs which helped draw her attention to the perspectives of indigenous youth from the North End and the experience of having missing family members.
Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. Vermette is of Métis descent and originates from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was a MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
In 2013, Vermette won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry, for her collection North End Love Songs, an accolade she dubbed a "goal" for poetry, as well as being "completely unexpected". In an interview with CBC Radio, Vermette discussed having considered not accepting the award, as a means of protesting the Canadian government’s treatment of the many missing and murdered Aboriginal women at the time, and disagreeing with the government’s policies in general. After consideration, Vermette decided to accept the award because the people who voted for North End Love Songs were a collection of her literary peers, making it a reflection of the Canadian poetry community, rather than the Canadian government.
She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba, and edited the anthology xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country in 2011.
