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Canadian playwright, author and journalist
Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, author and journalist.
Life and career [ edit ]
Born in Curve Lake, Ontario , Taylor is of both Ojibwe and white ancestry. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Because I am half Ojibway half Caucasian, we will be called the occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a special occasion."[1] Globe and Mail Métis , skin colour etc., only increases the sense of dysfunction in our community."[2]
He writes about First Nations culture and has also been a frequent contributor to various magazines including This Magazine
As well as his writing, Taylor has been the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts , and has taught at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre . He co-created the series Mixed Blessings APTN in 2007, and has been a writer for The Beachcombers Street Legal North of 60 CBC Television , including Searching for Winnetou , Cottagers and Indians and The Pretendians [3]
Taylor has held writer-in-residence positions at Native Earth Performing Arts , Cahoots Theatre, the University of Michigan , The University of Western Ontario , the Stephen Leacock Festival, the Blyth Festival , Lüneburg University , and Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University ).[4]
Le Baiser de Nanabush , the French translation of Taylor's Motorcycles & Sweetgrass , was selected for the 2023 edition of Le Combat des livres Xavier Watso .[5]
Partial bibliography [ edit ]
Drew Hayden Taylor talks about Motorcycles and Sweetgrass on Bookbits radio.
Non-fiction [ edit ]
Funny, You Don't Look Like One (1998)
Further Adventures of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don’t Look Like One #2 (1999)
Furious Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don’t Look Like One #3 (2002)
Futile observations of the Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don’t Look Like One #4 (2004)
NEWS: Postcards from the Four Directions (2010)
The Best of Funny, You Don’t Look Like One (anthology from first three editions) (2015)
Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views On the Future (2021)
Collections edited [ edit ]
Voices: Being Native in Canada , with Linda Jaine (1992)
Me Funny (2006)
Me Sexy (2008)
Drew Hayden Taylor: Essays on His Works (2008)
Me Artsy (2015)
Fiction [ edit ]
Fearless Warriors (short Stories) (1998)
The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel (2007)
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass (2010)
The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel , illustrated by Mike Wyatt (2013)
Take Us To Your Chief: and Other Stories
Chasing Painted Horses (2019)
Cold (2024)
Plays produced [ edit ]
(By year of first production)
Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock (1989)
Education is Our Right (1990)
Talking Pictures (1990)
The Bootlegger Blues (1990)
Someday (1991)
The All Complete Aboriginal Show Extravaganza (1994)
Girl Who Loved Her Horses (1995)
The Baby Blues (1995)
400 Kilometres (1996)
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (1996)
alterNatives (1999)
Toronto@DreamersRock.com (1999)
The Boy in the Treehouse (2000)
The Buz’Gem Blues (2001)
Sucker Falls (2001)
Raven Stole the Sun (2004)
In a World Created by a Drunken God
The Berlin Blues (2007)
Three Tricksters (2009)
Dead White Writer on the Floor (2010)
God and The Indian (2013)
Cerulean Blue (2014)
Spirit Horse (2016)
Cottagers and Indians (2018)
References [ edit ]
^ "The Boyden effect: Defending my ‘tenuous Indian background’" . The Globe and Mail
^ Blair Ingenthron, "CBC to Air THE PRETENDIANS This Week" . Broadway World
^ "Drewhaydentaylor.com" . Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2015 .
^ Bobby Therrien, "Un roman de Sébastien Bérubé candidat au Combat national des livres" . L'Acadie Nouvelle
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