06.11.2023
David A. Robertson | Lecture and Reading by Award-Winning Indigenous Author from Canada | November 8
Join us for a Lecture and Reading with
David A. Robertson
--Award-winning Indigenous Popular Fiction Author from Canada on his first Reading Tour through Germany
Date and Time: November 8 2023, 13:00-14:30 (Doors: 12:30)
Venue: Fritz-Foerster-Bau, Room 101, TU Dresden
This event will take place in English and will be live-streamed. For a Zoom link please contact: moritz.ingwersen@tu-dresden.de.
David A. Robertson (*1977) is an award-winning Indigenous author from Canada and member of the Norway House Cree Nation. Since 2008 he has written over 25 books and graphic novels for children and young adults that frequently integrate elements of fantasy, horror, and Indigenous storytelling. He is the recipient and nominee of numerous literary awards, including the Writers’ Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award (2021), the Governor General’s Literary Award (2017), the Beatrice Mosionier Indigenous Writer of the Year Award, the McNally Robinson Best Book for Young People Award, and many more. His most recent works include the Misewa Saga (2022-2023), Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory (2020), and The Reckoner Rises (2020-2022) and he has contributed to celebrated anthologies of Indigenous speculative fiction such as Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time (2016), This Place: 150 Years Retold (2019), and Love After the End (2020). Through his writing about Indigenous cultures, communities, and histories, he educates and entertains, telling stories of Indigenous empowerment and futurity. Aside from being a writer he works at the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre. Together with his wife and five children he lives in Winnipeg.
Find the author online:
www.darobertson.ca
www.twitter.com/DaveAlexRoberts
Hosted by Chair of North American Literature | Future Studies
Funded in cooperation with TU Dresden Diversity Office