An Evening with Tanya Talaga (The Knowing)

Name: An Evening with Tanya Talaga (The Knowing)
Start: 2024-11-15T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-15T20:00:00-06:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join us for an evening with Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, as she returns to Winnipeg to discuss her new book, The Knowing (HarperCollins Canada), a riveting exploration of her family's story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada. Hosted by author David A. Robertson. A book signing will follow.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781443467506/tanya-talaga/the-knowing
The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide.
Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.
Author Tanya Talaga is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. She is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award. A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the novel was also CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer. She is also the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.