Indians on Vacation

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Indians on Vacation
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Author Thomas King
Audio read byKeith Sellon-Wright
LanguageEnglish
Genre Literary fiction
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
25 August 2020
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (hardcover), audiobook
ISBN 9781443460545

Indians on Vacation is a novel by Canadian writer Thomas King, published in 2020 by HarperCollins. [1] The novel focuses on Bird and Mimi, a First Nations couple who are travelling in Europe following the discovery of a trove of old postcards from Mimi's late uncle Leroy, who absconded with a valuable family heirloom 100 years earlier but never returned. [2]

The novel won the 2021 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. [3] It was longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize [4] and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2020 Governor General's Awards. [5]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2020 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlisted
Giller Prize Longlisted [6]
Governor General's Awards Fiction (English) Finalist
2021Evergreen AwardFinalist [7]
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Won
2022 International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted [8]

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