Naomi Fontaine | |
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| Born | September 29, 1987 Uashat |
| Occupation | Novelist, Teacher |
| Literary movement | CanLit |
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Naomi Fontaine is a Canadian writer from Quebec, [1] noted as one of the most prominent First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. [2] She is a member of the Innu nation.
A member of the Innu nation from Uashat, Quebec, she studied education at the Université Laval. [3]
Her 2011 debut novel Kuessipan [4] received an honourable mention from the Prix 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 the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards. [7] Also in 2017, her short piece "Tshinanu" was selected for inclusion in Granta's Canadian issue. [8]
Manikanetish was selected for the 2019 edition of Le Combat des livres , where it was defended by surgeon Stanley Vollant. [9]
Her novel Kuessipan was adapted by Myriam Verreault into the 2019 theatrical feature film Kuessipan . [10] Verreault and Fontaine received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards for the film.
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