Join Maria Campbell, winner of the 2023 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence, for an evening of storytelling.
Maria Campbell is a writer, filmmaker and playwright. She has published seven books, including Halfbreed, which was first published in 1973 and was republished in 2019 to include pages that were pulled (by the publisher) from the ‘73 edition. Film rights for Halfbreed were sold in May 2023. Maria is the Indigenous Knowledge and Wellness Coordinator, Office of the President at the First Nations University of Canada. This follows several years spent as the Cultural Advisor at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan. She has received numerous honours and awards, among them the Gabriel Dumont Order of Merit, a three-year Trudeau Fellowship at the University of Ottawa, seven Honorary Doctorates and the Lieutenant Governors Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. She is an officer of the Order of Canada.
Read more about Maria Campbell and the 2023 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence at the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild website.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Speakers & Special Events | Indigenous | Author Reading |
TAGS: | Speakers & Current Events |
The Frances Morrison Central Library officially opened on May 28, 1966. This facility was named after Frances Morrison, who served as Saskatoon Public Library’s (SPL) chief librarian from 1961 to 1980. The Frances Morrison Central Library is the largest of SPL’s nine libraries and houses a dedicated Children’s Department, Fine Arts Department, Local History Room, Theatre, a computer lab, Innovation Lab, SPL's Writer in Residence, Accessibility Services and various administrative offices.
