The Library and Archives Canada Foundation has recently celebrated five remarkable Canadians, including our very own client Shani Mootoo, author of POLAR VORTEX, visual artist and video maker with a Scholar Award!
The LAC Scholar Awards recognizes the recipients for their outstanding contribution to the creation and promotion of our country’s culture, literary heritage and historical knowledge.
Shani Mootoo is pictured above during the award ceremony with Roseann O’Reilly Runte the founder of the prize, Leslie Weir Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Edith Dumas Lieutenant Governor of Canada and the two other laureates, Reneltta Arluk and Katie Beaton.
Learn more about the awards: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/news/2024/05/celebrating-remarkable-canadians-2024-library-and-archives-canada-scholar-awards.html
Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and lives in Canada. She holds an MA in English from the University of Guelph, writes fiction and poetry, and is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Mootoo’s critically acclaimed novels include Polar Vortex, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Valmiki’s Daughter, He Drown She in the Sea, and Cereus Blooms at Night. She is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and the James Duggins Mid-Career Novelist Award from the Lambda Literary Awards. Her work has been long- and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the International DUBLIN Literary Award, and the Booker Prize. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Shani is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations Shani!