Katherena Vermette
- January 8, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
Katherena Vermette Biography
| Name | Katherena Vermette |
| Birthday | Jan 29 |
| Birth Year | 1977 |
| Place Of Birth | Winnipeg |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Katherena Vermette is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on January 29, 1977 in Winnipeg, Canada. 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’s children’s picture book series The Seven Teachings Stories was published by Portage and Main Press in 2015. Illustrated by Irene Kuziw, the collection aims to present the Anishnaabe Teachings of the Seven Grandfathers in a way that is easily digestible for young people. The series depicts Indigenous children in a metropolitan context, fostering a sense of representation for historically and continually marginalized Indigenous groups, among those who they are, and have been, marginalized by. The series comprises seven individual volumes: The Just Right Gift, Singing Sisters, The First Day, Kode’s Quest(ion), Amik Loves School, Misaabe’s Stories, and What is Truth, Betsy?.
In 2017, Vermette won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for The Break. Its French translation, Ligne brisée, was defended by Naomi Fontaine in the 2018 edition of Le Combat des livres, where it won the competition.
In 2015, she and Erika MacPherson co-directed the 20-minute National Film Board of Canada documentary This River, about Canadian Indigenous families that have had to search for family members who have disappeared. Partly based on Vermette’s own experience, the film received the 2016 Coup de coeur du jury award at Montreal’s Présence autochtone [fr] festival, and premiered in Vermette’s hometown of Winnipeg on October 5, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It was named best short documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards. Vermette and NFB producer Alicia Smith also created a related Instagram work, What Brings Us Here, a companion piece to The River, which offers portraits of volunteers behind the community-run Winnipeg search teams the Bear Clan and Drag the Red. Smith has stated that it was Vermette’s North End Love Songs which helped draw her attention to the perspectives of indigenous youth from the North End and the experience of having missing family members.
Katherena Vermette Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Katherena Vermette is one of the richest Poet from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katherena Vermette 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In 2013, Vermette won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, for her collection North End Love Songs, an accolade she dubbed a “goal” for poetry, as well as being “completely unexpected”. In an interview with CBC Radio, Vermette discussed having considered not accepting the award, as a means of protesting the Canadian government’s treatment of the many missing and murdered Aboriginal women at the time, and disagreeing with the government’s policies in general. After consideration, Vermette decided to accept the award because the people who voted for North End Love Songs were a collection of her literary peers, making it a reflection of the Canadian poetry community, rather than the Canadian government.
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 Métis descent and originates from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was a MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
Her debut novel The Break was published in 2016, and was a shortlisted finalist for that year’s Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction. In November 2017, it won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature.
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Is Katherena Vermette indigenous?
Born to a Métis father and a Mennonite mother, Katherena Vermette grew up in Winnipeg’s predominantly Indigenous North End.
What is Katherena Vermette known for?
Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Winnipeg. Her other books include the poetry collections North End Love Songs and river woman, the novel The Break and the four-book graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo. North End Love Songs won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry.
What is the theme in the break by Katherena Vermette?
Vermette brings up topics such as racism, homelessness, alcoholism, gang violence, violence towards women, collectivism, family bonds, intergenerational trauma, and resilience. There are so many themes that Vermette weaves throughout The Break and they all have their place throughout this stunning novel.
Where does Katherena Vermette live?
Vermette lives, works, and plays with her two daughters and two cats in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.