Marilyn Dumont

{{short description|Canadian poet of Cree/Métis descent|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Marilyn Dumont (born 1955, Olds, Alberta) is a Canadian poet and educator of Cree / Métis descent.

Born in northeastern Alberta, she is a descendant of Gabriel Dumont.[http://www.plr-dpp.ca/PLR/about/bio_marilyn_dumont.aspx Canada Council for the Arts]. Public Lending Right Commission. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Dumont holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia.[http://www2.athabascau.ca/cll/writers/english/writers/mdumont/mdumont.php Athabasca University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130233614/http://www2.athabascau.ca/cll/writers/english/writers/mdumont/mdumont.php |date=2010-11-30 }}. Author biography. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Her work is widely anthologized. She is currently a Full Professor at the University of Alberta cross appointed in the Faculties of Arts and Native Studies. In the Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Department she teaches Indigenous Literature and creative writing.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Marilyn Dumont, BA, MFA - Associate Professor|url=https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/mdumont|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-20|website=University of Alberta Directory}}

Bibliography

  • A Really Good Brown Girl. London, ON: Brick, 1996. {{ISBN|0-919626-76-9}}
  • Green Girl Dreams Mountains. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 2001.
  • that tongued belonging. Cape Croker ON: Kegedonce Press, 2007
  • in German: diese Zugehörigkeit durch die Zunge, in: Heute sind wir hier. We Are Here Today. A Bilingual Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Literature(s) from Canada. ed. Hartmut Lutz. Publisher: M.u.H. von der Linden, Wesel 2009 {{ISBN|3926308125}}
  • Ed. Initiations: a Selection of Young Native Writings. Penticton: Theytus Books, 2007.

Awards

  • 1997: Gerald Lampert Award, A Really Good Brown Girl
  • 2001: Alberta Book Award for Poetry, Green Girl Dreams Mountains
  • 2001: Writer's Guild of Alberta Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Green Girl Dreams Mountains
  • 2007: McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, That Tongued Belonging
  • 2019: Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2019-06-17|title=Distinguished Artist Award Recipients Announced|url=https://artsawards.ca/distinguished-artist-award-recipients-announced/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-20|website=|language=en-CA}}

Notable criticism

  • Barkwell, Lawrence J.: Marilyn Dumont, in Women of the Métis Nation. Winnipeg: Louis Riel Institute, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-9809912-5-3}}
  • Patrick Schmitz: The aspect of healing in the poetry of Gregory Scofield, Marilyn Dumont, Roo Borson and Louise Bernice Halfe. Grin, Munich 2012 {{ISBN|9783656151364}}
  • Vesna Lopičić: The devil’s language of Marilyn Dumont. {{doi|10.1007/s11059-017-0375-z}}. In: Neohelicon, Springer (Netherlands) March 2017, pp 1–12, print: {{ISSN|0324-4652}}

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