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Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette is the author of The Break, a Canada Reads 2017 finalist.
Katherena Vermette is a Mtis writer who won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2013. (CBC)

Katherena Vermette is a Mtis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Mtis nation, Winnipeg. She won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs, and her debut novel, The Break, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Vermette's other projects include The Seven Teachings Stories, a picture book series inspired by the Seven Sacred Teachings of the Anishinaabe, and this river, a short National Film Board of Canada documentary that chronicles the search for missing and murdered Indigenous women in the Winnipeg area.The Breakwasdefended byCandyPalmateronCanada Reads2017.

A companion toThe Break, Vermette's2021novelThe Strangers, asearing exploration of race, class, inherited trauma, and matrilineal bonds, won the2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prizeand waslonglisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Interviews with Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette talks to Shelagh Rogers about The Break. The Break was the choice this spring for the virtual national book club, One E-read Canada.
The Governor General's Award for fiction finalist pays tribute to her hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.