A Reading by Joseph Boyden

Canadian novelist and winner of the Giller Prize, Canada’s premier literary honor.

JOSEPH BOYDEN, a Canadian of Metis heritage, is author of a collection of stories, Born with a Tooth, and two novels, Three Day Road, and Through Black Spruce.

Through Black Spruce won Canada’s most prestigious literary prize, the ScotiaBank Giller, on November 11, 2008. Joseph Boyden is the first Native writer to win this award.

Three Day Road has been translated, to date, into 12 languages. Isabelle Allende chose the novel for The Today Show’s book club, and Barnes & Noble selected it for their Discover Great New Writers Program. As an international bestseller and a continuing bestseller in Canada, the novel has won The Rogers Writers Trust Prize; McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award; Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year Award; The Libris Book of the Year Award; Amazon First Novel Award; the Festival America Readers’ Award, Vincennes, Paris; the Ontario Library Association Book of the Year, and France’s Prix Literaire. Three Day Road was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award and nominated by five libraries for the Dublin IMPAC Award long list.

Boyden is a contributing writer for Canada’s Maclean’s magazine and has published and continues to publish fiction and nonfiction in a variety of places, including Spirit Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Walrus, Driven, and Globe and Mail. His work has been anthologized in PEN International, Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories and elsewhere.