14 Facts About Richard Wagamese

Richard Wagamese was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario.

Richard Wagamese was best known for his novel Indian Horse, which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature in 2013, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.

Richard Wagamese did not reunite with his family until age 23.

Richard Wagamese was married and divorced three times, and had two sons named Jason and Joshua, one of whom was estranged.

On March 10,2017, two days after Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations was nominated for a BC Book Award, Richard Wagamese died at his home of natural causes.

Richard Wagamese was engaged at the time of his death.

In 1979 Richard Wagamese began his first job as a writer, working at New Breed, a First Nations publication.

Richard Wagamese spent much of his time as a journalist interviewing residential school survivors.

Richard Wagamese won a National Newspaper Award for writing in 1991.

Richard Wagamese's journalism won the Native American Press Association Award twice and the National Aboriginal Communications Society award.

Richard Wagamese stopped working full-time in journalism in 1993 but continued to write as a freelance journalist for publications such as The Globe and Mail.

Richard Wagamese published five other novels, a book of poetry, two children's books, and five non-fiction books, including two memoirs.

Richard Wagamese wrote for the television series North of 60.

Richard Wagamese is known as one of Canada's most prolific Indigenous authors.