Katherena Vermette
Katherena Vermette is the author of The Break, a Canada Reads 2017 finalist.
Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg. She won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs, and her debut novel, The Break, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Vermette's other projects include The Seven Teachings Stories, a picture book series inspired by the Seven Sacred Teachings of the Anishinaabe, and this river, a short National Film Board of Canada documentary that chronicles the search for missing and murdered Indigenous women in the Winnipeg area. The Break was defended by Candy Palmater on Canada Reads 2017.
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Interviews with Katherena Vermette
Katherena Vermette started out with poetry, wrote a national bestselling book and is now delving into the world of graphic novels. It was a book she didn't even know she wanted to write. 8:42
Author Katherena Vermette brought along her baby girl Ruby when she dropped by our studio in Toronto to take The Next Chapter's Proust questionnaire. 4:35
The Governor General's Award for fiction finalist pays tribute to her hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 7:06
Author Katherena Vermette's work explores themes of Indigenous youth and identity. But her new work, Pemmican Wars, frames these themes using an entirely different medium — a sci-fi graphic novel. 16:30
Tracey Lindberg was joined on stage by Métis writer Katherena Vermette and Métis writer Cherie Dimaline to talk about race and representation on Canada Reads, CBC's annual battle of the books. 18:21
Katherena Vermette on her debut graphic novel, the first in the series A Girl Called Echo. 12:55
An interview with Katherena Vermette about her Canada Reads nominated book, "The Break". 17:31