Richard Wagamese
Richard Wagamese | |
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Wagamese at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2013 | |
| Native name | Mushkotay Beezheekee Anakwat (Buffalo Cloud) |
| Born | October 14, 1955 Minaki, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | March 10, 2017 (aged 61) Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, television writer |
| Language | Ojibway; English |
| Genre | First Nations literature |
| Notable works | Indian Horse |
| Notable awards | Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature (2013) |
Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario. He was best known for his novel Indian Horse (2012), which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.
It was adapted into a feature-length film, Indian Horse (2017), directed by Stephen Campanelli and released after Wagamese's death.