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Tomson Highway OC (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award. Highway also published a novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway's death of AIDS. He wrote the libretto for the first Cree language opera, The Journey or Pimooteewin.

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rdfs:label	Tomson Highway (en) Tomson Highway (fr)
rdfs:comment	Tomson Highway OC (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award. Highway also published a novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway's death of AIDS. He wrote the libretto for the first Cree language opera, The Journey or Pimooteewin. (en) Tomson Highway, décoré de l'Ordre du Canada, né le 6 décembre 1951 est un écrivain, dramaturge, pianiste, auteur-compositeur cri de Brochet, au nord du Manitoba, Canada. Durant sa jeunesse, il a été pianiste de concert avant de quitter cette occupation pour aider les siens, les Cris. Il parle couramment le cri, le français et l'anglais. En 2001, la Fondation nationale des réalisations autochtones lui a remis un Prix national d’excellence décerné aux Autochtones en arts. (fr)
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