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Tomson Highway is a Canadian Indigenous playwright and author. He has written a number of acclaimed plays, including The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Annie and the Old One, Rose, and The (Post) Mistress. His novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, which is based on his brother's death from AIDS, was nominated for the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Highway was born in Manitoba in and has become known as one of the most important voices in the artistic movement known as First Nations Theatre. After studying at the University of Western Ontario, Highway began writing plays, and his first play The Rez Sisters, a comedy about Indigenous women living on a reservation in Canada, brought him acclaim. After writing several other plays, Highway wrote a novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, in , about his own experiences of sexual abuse as a First Nations child in Canada.
In addition to plays and his novel, Highway has written children's books, essays, and opera librettos. He is a member of the Order of Canada, has earned a National Indigenous Achievement Award, and many honorary degrees.
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Tomson Highway, award-winning playwright and the author of The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Rose, and Kiss of the Fur Queen, was born in a tent near Maria Lake, Manitoba in A full-blood Cree, he is a registered member of the Barren Lands First Nation, the village for which is called Brochet. He grew up in the spectacularly beautiful natural landscape that is Canada's sub-Arctic, an un-peopled region of hundreds of lakes, endless forests of spruce and pine, and great herds of caribou. His parents, with no access to books, TV or radio, would tell their children stories, and Tomson fell in love with the oral tradition of storytelling. When he was six, he was taken from his family and placed in residential school in The Pas. Although he resented being taken away from his parent and family, he did learn music, and had plans to become a concert pianist. He traveled to London to study, and earned his music degree in and a Bachelor’s of Arts in from the University of Western Ontario. But instead of becoming a professional concert musician, Highway instead decided to dedicate his life to the service of his people.
Subsequently, for seven years, he immersed himself in the field of Native social work, working on reserves and in