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Nov 11, 2021 · Poet, author and teacher Lee Maracle has died in Surrey, B.C., at the age of 71. The award-winning writer and esteemed mentor garnered worldwide attention for her powerful writing and...
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Maracle was a member of the Stó:lō Nation, the daughter of a Métis mother and Salish father and a granddaughter of Chief Dan George. Maracle grew up in a poor neighbourhood called North Shore mud flats in North Vancouver, east of the Second Narrows Bridge. Feeling distanced from her Indigenous culture and an outsider in the broader Canadian culture...
Among Canada’s most prolific Indigenous writers, Maracle published novels, poetry, short story collections and collaborative anthologies. Her writing is an innovative fusion of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, myth and memoir that revives traditional Indigenous stories to frame her modern tales. Her primary focus was Indigenous womenin the context of ...
Maracle held numerous academic posts, including the Stanley Knowles Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at University of Waterloo; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University; Writer-in-Residence at University of Guelph; Writer-in-Residence at University of Toronto’s First Nations House; Instructor for t...
A celebrated and acclaimed writer, poet, teacher, and activist, Lee Maracle revolutionized Indigenous feminist literature in Canada and gave a poignant, unflinching voice to the stories of Indigenous women and their experiences with the destructive forces of discrimination and racism.
Jan 22, 2023 · The Man Gam e by Lee Henderson. Lee Henderson is the author of The Man Game. (Bryan McBurney/Penguin Group Canada) The synopsis for this 2009 novel reads, "On a recent Sunday afternoon in ...
Jan 26, 2016 · Lee Maracle, of Salish and Cree ancestry, is a member of the Stó:lo First Nation and one of the first Aboriginal writers in Canada to publish fiction. Her groundbreaking synthesis of autobiography and fiction, Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel (1975), recounts travels in the 1960s and 1970s within B.C., California and Toronto’s counter-cultural community.
Nov 12, 2021 · Lee Maracle 1950 – 2021. One of the first Indigenous writers in Canada to publish fiction, Lee Maracle died at the age of 71 on Nov. 11, 2021 of cardiac arrest. Of Salish and Cree ancestry, Maracle was a member of the Stó:lo First Nation.
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JJ Lee is the author of The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit (2011), a finalist for the Governor General’s, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust and Charles Taylor prizes for non-fiction.
