Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Following Shimun
- Publisher
- Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2024
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Native Americans
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774151716
- Publish Date
- Jul 2024
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781774151723
- Publish Date
- Jul 2024
- List Price
- $13.99
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Description
A young woman born on the other side of the ocean begins a journey alone. She heads north, stubbornly continuing beyond Tadoussac, past Baie-Comeau. She will only stop once she has reached Ekuanitshit, where she meets two sisters, Penassin and Nuenau, and their father Shimun. With the arrival of fall, Shimun invites the young woman to join him on a trip through Nutshimit, in the heart of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula.
Following Shimun paints a vibrant picture of the Innu community at a turning point in its history. Although the daily life of the Innu is heavily impacted by modernity and contact with people from very far away, the call of the land still exerts a magnetic pull, and the spirit of hospitality of this nomadic people still dictates how they treat unexpected guests.
About the authors
Howard Scott is a Montreal literary translator who works with fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His translations include works by Madeleine Gagnon, science-fiction writer Élisabeth Vonarburg, and Canada’s Poet Laureate, Michel Pleau. Scott received the Governor General’s Literary Award for his translation of Louky Bersianik’s The Euguelion. The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701, by Gilles Havard, which he co-translated with Phyllis Aronoff, won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Translation Award. A Slight Case of Fatigue, by Stéphane Bourguignon, another co-translation with Phyllis Aronoff, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Howard Scott is a past president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.
