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Creator Spotlight: Cherie Dimaline
“Politics and opinion shift the lens, outside looking in, but never in focus.”
“I am from these women and the men they allowed to live with them – the ones who hunted at night, who carried personal coolers to the party, who caught right hooks as well as they threw them. I grew up playing euchre inside thin walls. I know which moon can bring or take sight.”
- Cherie Dimaline, https://www.cheriedimaline.com/who-i-am
Cherie Dimaline is the internationally bestselling author of award-winning novels, notably including the Kirkus Prize- and Governer General’s Award-winning The Marrow Thieves (2017). Her 2019 novel Empire of Wild will hit the stage May 2027 as a bilingual (English/French) opera produced by the Canadian Opera Company. She lives in her Georgian Bay Métis Community and writes/produces for screen and stage.
“[Empire of Wild] is tight, stark, visceral, beautiful – rich where richness is warranted, but spare where want and sorrow have sharpened every word.” (National Public Radio)
Browse Cherie's titles in our featured online collection, which includes both e-books and physical copies available at the Learning Commons at Casa Loma, St. James, and Waterfront. We also invite you to explore our Indigenous collection at anytime and discover something new.
Spotlight on Indigenous creativity in collaboration with Indigenous Initiatives for National Indigenous History Month. Each Tuesday this June, we're featuring a different Indigenous creative from the Library collections.