ABOUT CHERIE

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Cherie Dimaline's 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves was declared by TIME magazine, one of the Best YA Books of All Time. This international bestseller has won the Governor General’s Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers, and was named a Book of the Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC.  Her novel Empire of Wild  (Random House Canada, William Morrow US, Weiden and Nicolson UK) became an instant Canadian bestseller and was named Indigo's #1 Best Book of 2019. It was featured in The New York Times, the New Yorker, GOOP, and the Chicago Review of Books among others. Hunting By Stars (Abrams US and Penguin Canada), the hotly anticipated sequel to The Marrow Thieves, was a 2022 American Indian Library Association Honor Book. Cherie lives in her home territory where she is a registered and active member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community. She is currently writing for television and screen. The much anticipated witchy novel VENCO (Random House, Canada; William Morrow, US) hits stores in February 2023 and has already been optioned by AMC Studio and Network. 

Selected Awards

-TIME magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time, The Marrow Thieves

-Indigo's #1 Best Book of 2019, Empire of Wild

-WINNER, 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature, The Marrow Thieves

-WINNER, 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award

-WINNER, 2017 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers

-WINNER, 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature

-FINALIST 2018 White Pine Award

-FINALIST 2018 Canada Reads

-HONOR BOOK, American Indian Library Association, 2017 and 2022

-BOOK OF THE CITY, London, ON, 2018

-UPPER GRAND READS selected book, 2019

-The Marrow Thieves on the following Best Books of 2017 Lists: Globe & Mail, New York Public Library, School Library Journal, American Indians in Children’s Literature, Quill & Quire, National Public Radio, Penn State Graduate School, 49th Shelf, CBC Books, Kirkus Review, Young Adult Library Services Association

-WINNER, Emerging Artist of the Year, Premier’s Excellence in the Arts Award 2014