Monique Gray Smith

Monique Gray Smith is a Canadian writer of children's and young adult literature.[1] She is most noted for her young adult novel Tilly, a Story of Hope and Resilience, which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2014,[2] and her children's picture book My Heart Fills With Happiness, which won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize in 2017.[3]

Of Cree, Lakota and Scottish descent, Smith is based in Victoria, British Columbia.[3]

In 2018 she was named as a finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation,[4] and for the Burt Award for The Journey Forward, a compilation of two novellas cowritten with Richard Van Camp.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Monique Gray Smith's new book for young readers charts a path to reconciliation". The Next Chapter, August 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Monique Gray Smith wins Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature". Quill & Quire, September 9, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Victoria writer Monique Gray Smith earns B.C. Book Prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, May 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Victoria author Monique Gray Smith nominated for award". Victoria Times-Colonist, September 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves among finalists for $10K CODE Burt Award for Indigenous YA literature". CBC Books, September 20, 2018.
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