Joshua Whitehead

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Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist. An Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, he began publishing poetry while pursuing undergraduate studies at the University of Winnipeg. rdf:langString

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rdf:langString Joshua Whitehead (Canadà, 5 de gener de 1989) és un poeta, novel·lista, assagista i acadèmic canadenc de les Primeres Nacions i de gènere . Concretament, com a , prové de la a la província de Manitoba. Així, és no-binari, i empra el pronom masculí he. A més, és professor adjunt de Literatura Anglesa a la Universitat de Calgary. Va començar a publicar poesia mentre estudiava un pregrau de psicologia a la . Després d'ingressar en un postgrau de a la Universitat de Calgary, el segell editorial independent va publicar-ne el poemari de debut Full Metal Indigiqueer el 2017. L'obra inicialment va estar nominat a un en la categoria de Poesia Transgènere el 2018, però Whitehead va refusar d'optar-hi perquè com a dos esperits no es considera una persona transgènere. La seva primera novel·la, Jonny Appleseed, va ser publicada per el 2018. El mateix any, Whitehead va arribar a finalista al d'escriptors canadencs LGBTI. A banda, el llibre va ser nominat en primera instància al del 2019, i finalista en el de ficció en anglès, i en el del 2019. Finalment, l'obra va guanyar el Premi Literari Lambda de ficció gai el 2019. Jonny Appleseed també va ser el llibre defensat en la competició del 2021 que en va sortir victoriós, gràcies a l'actriu canadenca, indígena i queer . Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, una antologia autoeditada, va merèixer el Premi Literari Lambda d'Antologia LGBTQ del 2021. Alguns dels escriptors que hi apareixen són , , Gabriel Castilloux Calderon, , Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, , i Nazbah Tom. La següent publicació de Whitehead està programada per al 23 d'agost de 2022 i es titula Making Love With the Land. És una antologia pròpia que explora la indigenitat, el fet de ser queer, el comunitarisme i la salut física i mental a través de l'assaig, la memòria, i confessions personals.

rdf:langString Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist. An Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, he began publishing poetry while pursuing undergraduate studies at the University of Winnipeg. After he started graduate studies in indigenous literature at the University of Calgary, Talonbooks published his debut poetry collection Full-Metal Indigiqueer in 2017. The book initially received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Poetry at the 30th Lambda Literary Awards in 2018, although Whitehead withdrew the book from consideration as the category was a misrepresentation of his identity as a two-spirit, not transgender, person. His debut novel, Jonny Appleseed, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2018. In the same year, he was named a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Canadian LGBTQ writers, and the book was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards and the 2019 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The book won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards. Jonny Appleseed won the 2021 Canada Reads competition, championed by Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, an anthology edited by Whitehead, was named the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology at the 33rd Lambda Literary Awards in 2021. Writers featured in the anthology include Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Darcie Little Badger, Gabriel Castilloux Calderon, Adam Garnet Jones, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David Alexander Robertson, jaye simpson and Nazbah Tom.

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