June - 2006
Three Day Road earns awardBirchbark Staff
Joseph Boyden's First World War novel Three Day Road has earned the author the Canadian Author Association MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction.
Boyden, who divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana, is of Irish, Scottish and Metis heritage. In Three Day Road, as with his previous book, a collection of short stories entitled Born With a Tooth, he explores his Aboriginal roots, populating both with strong Aboriginal characters.
A tale of survival and rebirth, Three Day Road tells the story of two boyhood friends from northern Ontario who go off to war and how the experience changes them both. The novel, Boyden's first, also earned the writer the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Governor General Award for Fiction.
The Canadian Author Association announced the winners of this year's awards on May 16. Boyden is scheduled to take part in the Canadian Author Association CanWrite! Conference in Peterborough on July 7, where he will read from his book and receive a medal and a cheque for $2,500.