Tomson Highway

Tomson Highway is an acclaimed playwright and author. Two of his many plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, made him a national celebrity. Both plays won Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Best New Play and Floyd S. Chalmers Awards for Best Canadian Play, and were nominated for Governor General’s Awards. In 1998, he released his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, which received rare reviews and became a national bestseller.

Tomson holds three honourary degrees and is a Member of the Order of Canada. He is currently write a book on Aboriginal mythology based on a course he taught at the University of Toronto. Maclean’s named him one of the 100 most important people in Canadian history. Tomson is a Cree from Brochet, a reserve in the extreme northwest corner of Manitoba.