JANUARY 19, 1968

HAISLA EDEN VICTORIA LENA ROBINSON BORN—AWARD WINNING WRITER

Born in Kitimat, British Columbia, and raised in Kitamaat Village, Eden’s mother is Heiltsuk; her father, Haisla. Robinson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria. After graduating in 1992, Robinson working odds jobs in Vancouver before receiving a Master’s degree in creative writing from the University of BC. Eden’s 1^st book, Traplines (1996), won Britain’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Monkey Beach (2000), her 1^st novel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize & Governor General’s Literary Award. Robinson published Blood Sports in 2006 and The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling in 2011. She recently completed a 3-book series, Son of A Trickster (2017), Trickster Drift (2019), and Return of the Trickster (2022). In 2017, Robinson won the Writers’ Trust Fellowship.

Source: Jules Lewis, “Eden Robinson,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 9/6/2007, updated 11/9/2017.  Retrieved 8/3/2022, Eden Robinson | The Canadian Encyclopedia

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