Marilyn
Dumont
Marilyn Dumont's A Really Good Brown Girl won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and is now a Brick Books Classic and in French translation from Les editions Hannenorak Press. Her second poetry collection, Green Girl Dreams Mountains, won the 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award from the Writer’s Guild of Alberta. Her third collection, that tongued belonging, won the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry and Aboriginal Book of the Year. The Pemmican Eaters was published by ECW Press in 2015. Dumont has been writer-in-residence at the Edmonton Public Library, the University of Alberta, and Toronto's Massey College. She has been faculty at the Banff Centre and advised and mentored in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers’ Program.
Juror History
- Awards
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
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