Frank Christopher Busch
Frank Christopher Busch | |
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Born | June 5, 1978 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Occupation | novelist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2010s-present |
Notable works | Grey Eyes |
Frank Christopher Busch is a Cree writer from Canada, who was a winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2015 for his debut novel Grey Eyes.[1]
A member of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in Manitoba,[2] he wrote the novel after interviewing Indian residential school survivors while working for a law firm in Winnipeg.[2] He currently lives on the Westbank First Nation in British Columbia, where he is director of marketing for the First Nations Finance Authority.[3]
References[]
- ^ "CODE names winners of Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature". Quill & Quire, October 14, 2015.
- ^ a b "Novel a piece of lost aboriginal culture". Thompson Citizen, October 16, 2014.
- ^ "Grey Eyes, new First Nations novel, breaks with tradition". Kelowna Daily Courier, September 23, 2014.
Categories:
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian male novelists
- Cree people
- First Nations novelists
- Writers from Saskatoon
- Living people
- 1978 births
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century First Nations writers
- Canadian writer stubs