Eden Robinson

Haisla/Heiltsuk novelist EDEN ROBINSON is the author of a collection of novellas called Traplines, which won the Winifred Holtby Prize in the UK. Her next novels were Monkey Beach and Blood Sports. Monkey Beach won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. The first book in the Trickster trilogy, Son of a Trickster, became a finalist for the Giller Prize and Canada Reads. Trickster Drift, the second book in the trilogy, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2017, Eden was awarded the Writers' Trust Fellowship. She has been honoured with the 2024 Indspire Award for her contributions to Indigenous arts and story-telling. She lives in Kitamaat Village, BC.