Michelle Good

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Michelle Good
Occupation Author, poet, lawyer
Nationality Cree, Canadian
Alma mater University of British Columbia
Genre Fiction, poetry
Website
www.michellegood.ca

Michelle Good is a Cree writer, poet, and lawyer from Canada, most noted for her debut novel Five Little Indians.[1] She is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.[2] Good has an MFA and a law degree from the University of British Columbia and, as a lawyer, advocated for residential-school survivors.[3][4]

Early life and education

Good is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation.[5][6] She was impacted by the 60s scoop and spent time in the foster care system. [7]Her great-grandmother participated in the 1885 uprising at Frog Lake and her uncle was Big Bear.[5] Good graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative writing in 2014.[6] The first draft of her debut novel, Five Little Indians, was her graduate thesis project.[6] She began to practice law in her 40's, sharing the histories of residential schools in courtrooms. [8]

Works

Five Little Indians

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Main article: Five Little Indians (novel)

Five Little Indians is a story about five British Columbia residential-school survivors.[9] Although the novel itself is fiction, some of the episodes were based on real experiences of her mother and grandmother, who were both survivors of Canada's residential school system.[1] Published in 2020, the novel was longlisted for the Giller Prize[10] and shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[11] Now listed it as one of the top 10 novels of 2020.[12]

In 2021 the book won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2020 Governor General's Awards,[13] the Amazon.ca First Novel Award,[14] and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.[15] In 2021, the book was optioned to be adapted as a limited television series.[16]

Poetry

  • Defying Gravity published in Best Canadian Poetry 2016 and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, A Tenth Anniversary Edition[17]

Essays

  • A Tradition Of Violence published in Keetsahnak, Our Sisters: Walking with Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit Peoples[18]


References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Angelica Haggert, "'The story I was intended to write': Michelle Good on forthcoming novel 'Five Little Indians'". Canadian Geographic, February 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Michelle Good's Five Little Indians is a fictional look at the real Canadian legacy of residential schools". The Next Chapter, May 8, 2020.
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  10. ↑ Deborah Dundas, "Thomas King, Emma Donoghue make the 2020 Giller Longlist in a year marked by firsts". toronto Star, September 8, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Thomas King, Gil Adamson among finalists for $50K Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, October 6, 2020.
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  13. ↑ "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery". CTV News, June 1, 2021.
  14. ↑ Vicky Qiao, "Five Little Indians by Michelle Good wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, May 28, 2021.
  15. ↑ Deborah Dundas, "Michelle Good wins Kobo Emerging Writer fiction prize — making it three wins for the three noms she got on that big day in May". Toronto Star, June 22, 2021.
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