Marilyn Dumont (born 1955) is a Canadian poet and educator of Cree/ Métis descent. Born in northeastern

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, she is a descendant of Gabriel Dumont.Canada Council for the Arts
Public Lending Right Commission. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Dumont holds an MFA from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

.Athabasca University
. Author biography. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Her work is widely anthologized. She is currently an Associate Professor at the

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in the Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Department and teaches creative writing.

Bibliography

*''A Really Good Brown Girl''. London, ON: Brick, 1996. *''Green Girl Dreams Mountains''. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2001. *''that tongued belonging''. Cape Croker ON: Kegedonce Press, 2007 ** in German: ''diese Zugehörigkeit durch die Zunge'', in: ''Heute sind wir hier. We Are Here Today. A Bilingual Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Literature(s) from Canada.'' ed.

Hartmut Lutz Hartmut Lutz (born April 26, 1945) is professor emeritus and former chair of American and Canadian studies: Anglophone literatures and cultures of North America at the University of Greifswald, Germany. He is the founder of the Institut für Anglist ...

. Publisher: M.u.H. von der Linden, Wesel 2009 * Ed. ''Initiations: a Selection of Young Native Writings.'' Penticton: Theytus Books, 2007.

Awards

*1997:

Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert Gerald Lampert (c. 1924 - April 29, 1978) w ...

, ''A Really Good Brown Girl'' *2001: Alberta Book Award for Poetry, ''Green Girl Dreams Mountains'' *2001: Writer's Guild of Alberta Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, ''Green Girl Dreams Mountains'' *2007:

McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually since 2005 to a First Nations, Inuit or Métis writer for a work published in English in any literary genre. The author receives a cash award o ...

, ''That Tongued Belonging'' *2019: Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award

Notable criticism

* Barkwell, Lawrence J.: ''Marilyn Dumont'', in ''Women of the Métis Nation.'' Winnipeg: Louis Riel Institute, 2010. * Patrick Schmitz: ''The aspect of healing in the poetry of Gregory Scofield, Marilyn Dumont,

Roo Borson Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, 1952 in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College, she received an MFA from th ...

and

Louise Bernice Halfe Louise Bernice Halfe, is a Cree poet and social worker from Canada. Halfe's Cree name is Sky Dancer. At the age of seven, she was forced to attend Blue Quills Residential School in St. Paul, Alberta. Halfe signed with Coteau Books in 1994 and has ...

.'' Grin, Munich 2012 * Vesna Lopičić: ''The devil’s language of Marilyn Dumont.'' . In: Neohelicon, Springer (Netherlands) March 2017, pp 1–12, print:

External links

Brock University: Canadian Women Poets

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at English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University, added: bibliography by and about her

References

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