Vermette, Katherena

KATHERENA VERMETTE is a Metis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Metis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses Company) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Her National Film Board short documentary, this river, won the Coup de Coeur at the Montreal First Peoples Festival and the 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Short.The Break, her first novel, was bestseller in Canada and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. The Break was also shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was a 2017 Canada Reads finalist. Honours for The Break: Winner of the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction 2017 Winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award 2017 Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year 2017 Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award 2017 Short-listed for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2016 Short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award 2016 .;