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Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway
is a former Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts Inc.,
Toronto’s only professional Native theatre company. His 1986 play
The Rez Sisters won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play
in Toronto’s 1987–88 season, was honoured as one of the runners-up
for the Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Outstanding Canadian Play of 1986,
and was one of two productions to represent Canada on the Mainstage
of the Edinburgh International Festival. It was also a finalist for
the Governor General’s Literary Award in 1988. His next play Dry
Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing won four Dora Mavor Moore Awards,
the Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Outstanding Canadian Play in 1989 and
was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Drama that
same year. In addition, he has written five other plays. In 1998 Tomson
Highway’s first novel The Kiss of the Fur Queen was published
by Doubleday Canada and has been published in the U.S. by University
of Oklahoma Press. Tomson has also written three children’s books
published by Harper Collins: Caribou Song, Dragonfly Kites
and Fox On Ice. Tomson was the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor
at the University of Toronto (1997–99), and he has been honoured by
the University of Winnipeg, the University of Western Ontario, and Brandon
University in Manitoba with Honorary Doctor of Letters Degrees (LLD).
In January 1994, Tomson received the Order of Canada.
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