It is also nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and is also on two BC and Yukon Book Prize shortlists: the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. And as an author, she has found the kind of success with her debut novel that few would dare to even contemplate.įive Little Indians won the $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award on Thursday and is nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for Fiction, to be awarded on Tuesday.
As a lawyer, she has been a tireless advocate for Indigenous people – in particular, survivors of residential schools.
She obtained her law degree in her 40s, an MFA in her 50s and published her first book in her 60s. It’s tempting to call Michelle Good a late bloomer.
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