Indigenous writers recognized with awards

Cree Métis artist and author Dianne Meili was one of 20 recipients of the 2013 Alberta Book Publishing Awards and the Alberta Literary Awards recently handed out. Meili’s Those Who Know: Profiles of Alberta’s Aboriginal Elders, published by NeWest Press (Edmonton), took the Trade-Nonfiction Book Award. As well, Richard Van Camp, a member of the Dogrib Tribe from Fort Smith and former writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta ,won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction (sponsored by The Banff Centre) for Godless But Loyal to Heaven (Enfield & Wizenty).