Nirliit

By (author): Juliana Léveillé-Trudel

Translated by: Anita Anand

A young woman from Montreal follows the geese to the Inuit North in this deeply felt witnessing of contemporary Aboriginal life, as shaped by decades of colonial rule and government neglect. Having worked in the North for years, Juliana Léveillé-Trudel‘s account of the Indigenous experience offers a portrait of a valiant people undaunted by institutionalized racism, but in many cases broken by domestic violence, and corrupted by corporate mining and the presence of temporary workers up for the summer from the South in search of big paycheques.

Delivered across two searing monologues, Nirliit is a testament to a people’s perseverance as much as it is an apology by those who inflicted those circumstances upon them. Léveillé-Trudel courageously transcends the borders between historical divisions to make a meaningful individual connection.

AUTHOR

Anita Anand

ANITA ANAND is an author, translator and language teacher from Montreal. She is the author of Swing in the House and Other Stories, which won the 2015 Concordia University First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Relit Award for Fiction and the Montreal Literary Diversity Prize. Her novel, A Convergence of Solitudes, was nominated for the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. Her previous translations include Nirliit by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel, which was nominated for the 2018 John Glassco Prize, and Lightness by Fanie Demeule.


AUTHOR

Juliana Léveillé-Trudel

Juliana Léveillé-Trudel writes for the stage, and was a founder of the Théâtre de brousse. Since 2011 she has been working as an educator in the Nunavik region of Northern Quebec. Nirliit is her first novel. She lives in Montreal.


Reviews

“A cry from the heart for the Great North and its inhabitants, carried by strong writing.” –Christian Desmeules, Le Devoir

“I’m about to reread this book because its powerful beauty haunts me.” –Dorothée Berryman, La Presse


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A young woman from Montreal follows the geese to the Inuit North in this deeply felt witnessing of contemporary Aboriginal life, as shaped by decades of colonial rule and government neglect. Having worked in the North for years, Juliana Léveillé-Trudel‘s account of the Indigenous experience offers a portrait of a valiant people undaunted by institutionalized racism, but in many cases broken by domestic violence, and corrupted by corporate mining and the presence of temporary workers up for the summer from the South in search of big paycheques.

Delivered across two searing monologues, Nirliit is a testament to a people’s perseverance as much as it is an apology by those who inflicted those circumstances upon them. Léveillé-Trudel courageously transcends the borders between historical divisions to make a meaningful individual connection.

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Dimensions:

212 Pages
7.5in * 5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

April 15, 2018

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Vehicule Press

ISBN:

9781550654943

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

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Language:

eng

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