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| Born | (1987-09-29)September 29, 1987 (age 38) Uashat, Canada |
| Occupation | Novelist, Teacher |
| Literary movement | CanLit |
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Naomi Fontaine is aCanadian writer fromQuebec,[1] noted as one of the most prominentFirst Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature.[2] She is a member of theInnu nation.
A member of theInnu nation fromUashat,Quebec, she studied education at theUniversité Laval.[3]
Her 2011 debut novelKuessipan[4] received an honourable mention from thePrix des cinq continents de la francophonie in 2012.[5]Kuessipan is an meditative novel about life in the wilds of northeastern Quebec. Fontaine wrote this novel in French at the age of twenty-three. She depicts a community of Innu, nomadic hunters and fishers, and of hard-working mothers and their children, enduring a harsh, sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity. Pervading the book is a palpable sense of place and time played out as a series of moments. Elders who watch their kin grow up before their eyes; couples engaged in domestic crises, and young people undone by alcohol; caribou-skin drums that bring residents to their feet; and lives spent along a bay that reflects the beauty of the earth and the universal truth that life is a fleeting puzzle whose pieces must be put together before it can be fully lived.[6]
Her second novel,Manikanetish, was published in 2017,[3] and was a shortlisted finalist for theGovernor General's Award for French-language fiction at the2018 Governor General's Awards.[7] Also in 2017, her short piece "Tshinanu" was selected for inclusion inGranta's Canadian issue.[8]
Manikanetish was selected for the 2019 edition ofLe Combat des livres, where it was defended by surgeonStanley Vollant.[9]
Her novelKuessipan was adapted byMyriam Verreault into the 2019 theatrical feature filmKuessipan.[10] Verreault and Fontaine received aPrix Iris nomination forBest Screenplay at the22nd Quebec Cinema Awards for the film.
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