Eden Robinson

• Son of a TricksterEden Robinson

  

  Son of a Trickster

  Eden Robinson

  2017

Biography

Eden Robinson is the author of the bestselling Trickster trilogy, starting with ***Son of a Trickster*** (2017), a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a CBC Canada Reads contender. The sequel ***Trickster Drift*** (2018) won the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize for Fiction. The third volume, ***Return of the Trickster***, was called “a gift” by the *Vancouver Sun* and “funny, tender, and emotionally true” by the *Toronto Star*. But it is her first novel, ***Monkey Beach*** (2000), winner of the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize and a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, that is a perennial bestseller and is required reading in schools and universities; 100,000 copies are in print in Canada. Recently *Book Riot* listed ***Monkey Beach*** as one of 22 must-read books by indigenous authors. In 2017 Eden won the $50,000 Writers Trust of Canada Fellowship. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia in 2018. She served on the five-member Scotiabank Giller Prize jury in 2020. In 2022 she was awarded the Blue Metropolis First Peoples’ Literary Prize in Montreal. A member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations, she lives in Kitimat, in northern British Columbia near Alaska. ([Source](https://www.bukowskiagency.com/eden-robinson-sorceress))