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Emma Donoghue

Novelist, Short Story Writer, Screenwriter (Photo: Mark Raynes Roberts)

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Apr. 12 2026

Ruth DyckFehderau and James Bay Cree storytellers win Electa Quinney Award

Ruth DyckFehderau

Ruth DyckFehderau and her James Bay Cree colleagues (Elders, storytellers) have won the Electa Quinney Award for Published Indigenous Stories (Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures) for their 2023 book E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin: Residential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay…