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David Alexander Robertson

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DAVID A. ROBERTSON is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, as well as the Writer's Union of Canada Freedom to Read award. He has received several other accolades for his work as a writer for children and adults, podcaster, public speaker, and social advocate. He was honoured with a Doctor of Letters by the University of Manitoba for outstanding contributions in the arts and distinguished achievements in 2023. He is a member of Norway House Cree Nation and lives in Winnipeg. ...more

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David Alexander Robertson The inspiration to write this graphic novel came from a few places. First and foremost, I have three Cree/Métis daughters, and I am concerned about th…moreThe inspiration to write this graphic novel came from a few places. First and foremost, I have three Cree/Métis daughters, and I am concerned about the world they are growing up in because statistically, they are less safe than non-Indigenous girls. I want people to think about why that is, and consider their part in making this country a safe place for everybody. The message of this book is to share knowledge about what's going on in Canada, within the context of MMIWG2S. Betty Osborne is also a distant relative to the Robertson family and grew up in the same reserve my father grew up in, and of which I am a band member. So, this story is close to me and has been for two decades. Hopefully, this story will recontextualize Betty's story against today's epidemic, and make people think about the country we live in, and the country we want to live in.(less)
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Jen Storm recommends The Evolution of Alice by David Robertson

“David Robertson’s novel The Evolution of Alice is a novel written from multiple viewpoints after a tragic event takes place on a reserve for a single mother family. David’s writing is important to me because he is taking experiences many Indigenous people are living through today and giving them their voice in a time when we are […]
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“Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory.”
David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds

“Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because we don’t really have anything the land wants, we honor it for what it gives us...When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans.”
David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds

“We are time travellers. We visit the past - the events and decisions in our lives - sometimes repeatedly. Typically, these trips to another time are powered by regret, things we wish we would have done differently.”
David Alexander Robertson, All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety

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