(Canadian Press)-When Niigaan Sinclair pitched his collection of articles to a Toronto publisher, he was told \u201cW\u00eenip\u00eak: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre\u201d was a \u201cregional book.\u201d The Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe columnist and editor recalls being told to expect scant attention outside major urban centres, so he wasn\u2019t surprised to see \u201clike 80 per cent\u201d of his sales come from Manitoba, northwestern Ontario and Saskatchewan. But on Wednesday, Sinclair was assured the book had indeed resonated well beyond its geographical setting, winning the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. “They didn’t even do book launches for me in the rest of the country. And then boom, this all kind of hits. I think the country’s responded,” Sinclair says from Winnipeg in a video call. Sinclair makes an estimable list announced… <\/p>\n
(Canadian Press)-When Niigaan Sinclair pitched his collection of articles to a Toronto publisher, he was told \u201cW\u00eenip\u00eak: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre\u201d was a \u201cregional book.\u201d The Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe columnist and editor recalls being told to expect scant attention outside major urban centres, so he wasn\u2019t surprised to see \u201clike 80 per cent\u201d of his sales come from Manitoba, northwestern Ontario and Saskatchewan. But on Wednesday, Sinclair was assured the book had indeed resonated well beyond its geographical setting, winning the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. “They didn’t even do book launches for me in the rest of the country. And then boom, this all kind of hits. I think the country’s responded,” Sinclair says from Winnipeg in a video call. Sinclair makes an estimable list announced... <\/p>\n