Tomson Highway Writer
Tomson Highway, CM (born 6 December 1951) is a Canadian and Cree 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 him the Mavor Moore'>Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award.Highway has 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 also has the distinction of being the librettist of the first Cree language opera, The Journey or Pimooteewin.
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