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territory and follows a teenage girl's search for answers to and understanding of her younger brother's disappearance at sea while in the retrospective, it tells a story about growing up on a Haisla reserve. The book is both a mystery and a spiritual journey, combining contemporary realism with
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In 2003, Robinson returned to Kitamaat Village to provide care for her father, who had been battling Parkinson's Disease since 1998. However, in 2019, she faced her own health challenge with a diagnosis of
267:(2017) is a humorous coming of age novel and the first of a trilogy. It took Robinson eight years to write, and was originally conceived as a short story. The second book in the trilogy is 195:(1995), was a collection of four short stories. The young narrators recount haunting tales of their disturbing relationships with sociopaths and psychopaths. The collection won Britain's 578: 30: 1186: 701: 355: 159:, British Columbia, and is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Robinson pursued her academic journey, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the 1226: 1216: 1196: 471: 810: 1221: 1206: 1236: 1231: 1201: 667: 611: 1146: 743: 588: 726: 1191: 1176: 820: 308: 114: 1151: 763: 420: 1156: 803: 646: 446: 405: 392: 379: 364: 199:
for the best regional work by a Commonwealth writer. One of the stories, "Queen of the North", was also published in
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in 2016 for her body of work. In 2017 she was named a recipient of the $ 50,000 Writers' Trust Fellowship.
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Records of Eden Robinson are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
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was optioned for a television series, which premiered as
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Index

Robinson in November 2017
Kitimat, British Columbia
Monkey Beach
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
Indigenous Canadian
Haisla
Heiltsuk
First Nations
British Columbia, Canada
Kitamaat
University of Victoria
University of British Columbia
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Carla Robinson
CBC Newsworld
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
Terminal Avenue
So Long Been Dreaming
Monkey Beach
Kitamaat
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Governor General's Literary Award
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Son of a Trickster
Trickster
CBC Television
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
Scotiabank Giller Prize

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