Joseph Boyden
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Joseph Boyden (born 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His debut novel, Three Day Road, won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2006 and was a nominee for the 2005 Governor General's Awards. It previously won the inaugural McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award.
He grew up in Willowdale, Ontario and attended the Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School.
Boyden, of Irish and Scottish heritage with some(?) claimed Métis heritage, Boyden apparently writes about the First Nations voice, First Nations heritage and culture. Three Day Road, a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I, is inspired by Francis Pegahmagabow.
He studied creative writing at York University and the University of New Orleans, and subsequently taught in the aboriginal student program at Northern College.
He divides his time between Louisiana and Northern Ontario.
On March 1, 2006, Three Day Road was named winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for 2005.
Three Day Road was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2006, where it was championed by filmmaker Nelofer Pazira.
[edit] Bibliography
- Born With a Tooth (2001, short stories)
- Three Day Road (2005) (winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award)
