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Katherena Vermette

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in Winnipeg, Canada

January 29, 1977

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Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. Vermette is of Metis descent and from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was a MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

Her children's picture book series The Seven Teachings Stories was published by Portage and Main Press in 2015. In addition to her own publications, her work has also been published in the literary anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba, and edited the anthology xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country in 2011.

Vermette has described her writing as motivated by an a ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 37,734 ratings · 4,664 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Break 4.29 avg rating — 17,697 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strangers 4.11 avg rating — 9,147 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 2,528 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red River Resistance (A Girl Called Echo, #2) by Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 1,177 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River Woman 4.25 avg rating — 633 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northwest Resistance (A Girl Called Echo, Volume 3) by Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 688 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl and the Wolf by Katherena Vermette, Julie Flett (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North End Love Songs 4.35 avg rating — 501 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Road Allowance Era (A Girl Called Echo, 4) (Volume 4) by Katherena Vermette, Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Circle 4.24 avg rating — 144 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Girl Called Echo (4 books)
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Katherena Vermette,

Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator),

Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator)

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“The dead don't hang on, the living do. The dead don't have anything to hang on to. Our bodies become nothing, and we just float around the people who love us. We go back to nothing. That is all we ever were or should ever be.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

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“But even in sleep, her ghosts all hunt her down, wanting her to look at them, remember them.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

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“I don't know if I can be with someone who doesn't understand.' Her young face rests on her knee, looking away.

'Then you will be alone, and that will be fine.”
― Katherena Vermette, The Break

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