![]() ![]() “I don’t think I’m emerging in that sense,” says Good, a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Not bad for a 64-year-old beginner, although “emerging writer” isn’t entirely accurate. Last year, it made the long list for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. ![]() It’s already won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in English, and it’s shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and two B.C. “Don’t allow a number on a birth certificate or the colour of your hair to limit your possibilities.”Ĭase in point: her multi-award-winning 2020 novel Five Little Indians, which is currently cleaning up on the CanLit prize circuit. “If you have a story that you feel must be told, what difference does it make if you’re 10 or 90?” she said recently from her home outside Kamloops, B.C. Michelle Good understands the irrelevance of age when it comes to telling a story. ![]()
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