2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until June!

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Driftpile First Nation/Alberta

BILLY-RAY BELCOURT, from the Driftpile Cree Nation, won the Griffin Poetry Prize for "This Wound is a World." He was twice nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award. His bestsellers include "A Minor Chorus" and "Coexistence." He is an Associate Professor at UBC.

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