Five Little Indians (novel)
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Five Little Indians is a novel by Cree Canadian writer Michelle Good, published in 2020 by Harper Perennial.[1] The novel centres on five survivors of the Indian residential school system, struggling with varying degrees of success to rebuild their lives in Vancouver, British Columbia after the end of their time in the residential schools.[2]
Although the novel itself is fiction, some of the episodes were based on real experiences of her mother and grandmother, who were both survivors of the residential school system.[1]
The novel was longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize,[3] and shortlisted for the 2020 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[4] Now listed it as one of the top 10 novels of 2020.[5]
In 2021 the book won both the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2020 Governor General's Awards,[6] and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[7]
The novel has been optioned by Prospero Pictures for development as a limited television series, with Shannon Masters as writer and showrunner.[8]
References[edit source]
- ^ Jump up to:a b Angelica Haggert, "'The story I was intended to write': Michelle Good on forthcoming novel 'Five Little Indians'". Canadian Geographic, February 20, 2020.
- ^ Marcia Kaye (April 16, 2020). "Michelle Good's "Five Little Indians" a fictional exploration of life after residential school". Toronto Star.
- ^ Deborah Dundas, "Thomas King, Emma Donoghue make the 2020 Giller Longlist in a year marked by firsts". toronto Star, September 8, 2020.
- ^ "Thomas King, Gil Adamson among finalists for $50K Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, October 6, 2020.
- ^ Cole, Susan G. (November 30, 2020). "The 10 best books of 2020". Now.
- ^ "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery". CTV News, June 1, 2021.
- ^ Vicky Qiao, "Five Little Indians by Michelle Good wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, May 28, 2021.
- ^ Vicky Qiao, "Michelle Good's Five Little Indians to be adapted into limited TV series". CBC News, June 9, 2021.
Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
1930s
Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth (1936)
Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)
Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata (1938)
Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road (1939)
1940s
Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940)
Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942)
Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944)
Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945)
Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946)
Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947)
Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948)
Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s
Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950)
Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951)
David Walker, The Pillar (1952)
David Walker, Digby (1953)
Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954)
Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955)
Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956)
Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957)
Colin McDougall, Execution (1958)
Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s
Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise (1962)
Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963)
Douglas LePan, The Deserter (1964)
[no award] (1965)
Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966)
[no award] (1967)
Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man (1969)
1970s
Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970)
Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972)
Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974)
Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
Marian Engel, Bear (1976)
Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977)
Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s
George Bowering, Burning Water (1980)
Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982)
Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986)
M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine (1987)
David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988)
Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)
1990s
Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990)
Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey (1991)
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993)
Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996)
Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997)
Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998)
Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s
Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001)
Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
Douglas Glover, Elle (2003)
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004)
David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams (2006)
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007)
Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008)
Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s
Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010)
Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012)
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013)
Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (2014)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018)
Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)
2020s
Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (2020)
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