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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wayne_Arthurson > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wayne_Arthurson.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Arthurson > Source revision: 1355382761 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Canadian writer}} '''Wayne Arthurson''' is a [Canadian](/source/Canadian) writer and [literary agent](/source/literary_agent) born in the province of [Quebec](/source/Quebec) and living in [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton), [Alberta](/source/Alberta).{{Cite web |title=Wayne Arthurson - Éditions Héliotrope |url=https://www.editionsheliotrope.com/auteurs/wayne-arthurson/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=www.editionsheliotrope.com |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |title=Wayne Arthurson |url=https://www.therightsfactory.com/Agents/wayne-arthurson |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=The Rights Factory |language=en}} He is the author of several novels and several books related to [First Nations peoples](/source/First_Nations_peoples), His parents are of [Cree](/source/Cree_people) and [French Canadian](/source/French_Canadian_people) descent. He grew up on an army base. ==Career== Since the age of twenty-four, he has lived from his writing, whether as a journalist, freelance writer or novelist. He has published over two hundred articles in magazines and newspapers.[https://www.writerstrust.com/authors/wayne-arthurson Wayne Arthurson | Writers' Trust of Canada] He developed his skills during his time working as a security guard, as told to CBC Radio,[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/david-alexander-robertson-iskw%C3%A9-linda-granfield-1.4047311/how-wayne-arthurson-started-writing-novels-1.4047328 How Wayne Arthurson started writing novels | CBC Radio] He echos the pitfalls of what is labelled as Native American mystery novels: thrillers written by non-Indegenous perpetrating stereotypes such as the stoic warrior, the corrupted Chief, or the wise elder, thus creating a false sense of authenticity.{{Cite journal |last=Blick |first=William |date=March 2025 |title=Mary Stoecklein. ''Indigenous Investigations: Native American Mystery Writing'' |url=https://doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2025.0142 |journal=Crime Fiction Studies |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=128–130 |doi=10.3366/cfs.2025.0142 |issn=2517-7982|url-access=subscription }}Diversity in crime writing: Wayne Arthurson on how white voices overwhelm Indigenous crime fiction Arthurson's first novel, ''Final Season'', published in 2002, is set in a First Nations community that faces profound environmental change, due to a new hydroelectric project. Arthurson has two mystery series. One with the recurring hero Leo Desroches, a [metis](/source/M%C3%A9tis) journalist, who has had his own run-ins with the law: ''Fall from Grace'' published in 2011, ''A Killing Winter'' published in 2012, and ''Blood Red Summer'' published in 2016. They were followed by the second series featuring Sergeant Neumann: ''The Traitors of Camp 133'' in 2016 and ''Dishonour in Camp 133'' in 2019, set in a [POW](/source/POW) camp for captured Germans, in Alberta. ''[The Red Chesterfield](/source/The_Red_Chesterfield)'', published in 2019, features ''"M"'', a by-law enforcement officer, threading not so carefully amidst family members ''"J"'' and ''"K"''. He is translated in French by [https://www.alire.com/Auteurs/Arthurson.html Alire] and [https://www.editionsheliotrope.com/auteurs/wayne-arthurson/ Héliotrope]. In October 2021, he joined The Rights Factory as a literary agent.[https://www.facebook.com/TheRightsFactory/posts/the-rights-factory-is-thrilled-to-announce-that-wayne-arthurson-has-joined-us-as/4573184549387766/ The Rights Factory is thrilled to... - The Rights Factory | Facebook] ==Awards and honors== Arthurson won the Alberta Readers' Choice Award in 2012 with his first novel ''Fall From Grace''. He won the [Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence](/source/Crime_Writers_of_Canada_Awards_of_Excellence) in May 2020 (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award) for best crime novella with The Red Chesterfield.{{Cite web |title=Welcome to 2023-24 Writer-in-Residence Wayne Arthurson |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/en/english-film-studies/efsnews/2023/august/welcome-to-2023-24-writer-in-residence-wayne-arthurson.html |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=www.ualberta.ca |language=en}} He was also shortlisted twice for the [High Plains Book Awards](/source/High_Plains_Book_Awards) in the Best Indigenous Writer category. ==Bibliography== * {{cite book | url = | title = The Red Chesterfield | publisher = [University of Calgary Press](/source/University_of_Calgary_Press) | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2019 | isbn = 9781773850771 }} * {{cite book | url = | title = Dishonour in Camp 133 | publisher = [Turnstone Press](/source/Turnstone_Press) | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2019 | isbn = 9780888016218 }} * Wayne Arthurson (2016). ''Traitors of Camp 133''. Ravenstone. {{ISBN|978-0-88801-587-7}} * {{cite book | url = | title = Blood Red Summer | publisher = Eschia Books | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2016 | isbn = 9781926696270 }} * {{cite book | url = | title = Fall from Grace | publisher = self-published | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2015 | isbn = 9781515143406 }} * {{cite book | url = | title = Alberta's Weekly Newspapers | publisher = Folklore Pub. | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2012 | isbn = 9781926677804 }} * {{cite book | url = | title = A Killing Winter | publisher = [Macmillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers) | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2012 | isbn = 9781429924603 }} * {{cite book | url = | title = Spirit Animals | publisher = Eschia Books | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2012 | isbn = 9781926696218 }} * {{cite book | url = | title = In the Shadow of Our Ancestors: The Inventions and Genius of the First Peoples | publisher = Eschia Books | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2010 | isbn = 9781926696133 }} * {{cite book | url = | title = Final Season | publisher = [Thistledown Press](/source/Thistledown_Press) | author = Wayne Arthurson | year = 2002 | isbn = 9781894345484 }} ==References== {{Reflist|refs= {{cite news | url = https://quillandquire.com/omni/diversity-in-crime-writing-wayne-arthurson-on-how-white-voices-overwhelm-indigenous-crime-fiction/ | title = Diversity in crime writing: Wayne Arthurson on how white voices overwhelm Indigenous crime fiction | work = [Quill & Quire](/source/Quill_%26_Quire) | author = Wayne Arthurson | date = 2018-12-19 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2020-04-13 | quote = The Stoic Warrior, the Uncanny Tracker, the Magic Indian, the Comic Relief Indian, the Wise Elder, the Savage Indian, the Badass Native, the Environmental Activist, the Corrupt Chief – these broad portrayals take up a lot of character space in these novels. }} {{cite news | url = https://www.cbc.ca/books/blood-red-summer-1.4129558 | title = Blood Red Summer: Wayne Arthurson | work = [CBC Books](/source/CBC_Books) | author = Candy Palmater | date = 2017-05-24 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2020-04-14 | quote = }} {{cite news | url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/keeping-despair-at-bay/article747994/ | title = Keeping despair at bay | work = [The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail) | author = Jim Bartley | date = 2003-01-04 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2020-04-14 | quote = In Edmonton writer Wayne Arthurson's debut novel, the lakeside village of Grand Rapids, Manitoba, becomes the forlorn hub of a native fishing community negotiating the shocks of a massive hydro-electric project. }} {{cite news | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WtJKDwAAQBAJ&dq=Leo+Desroches&pg=PA100 | title = The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction | author = Rachel Haliburton | publisher = [Lexington Books](/source/Lexington_Books) | year = 2018 | pages = 87, 99, 102, 103, 130 | location = | isbn = 9781498536813 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2020-04-14 | quote = }} {{cite news | url = https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-march-28-2020-1.5512034/wayne-arthurson-plays-with-the-mystery-genre-and-magic-in-his-novel-the-red-chesterfield-1.5512055 | title = Wayne Arthurson plays with the mystery genre and magic in his novel The Red Chesterfield | work = [CBC Radio](/source/CBC_Radio) | author = [Shelagh Rogers](/source/Shelagh_Rogers) | date = 2020-03-27 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2020-04-14 | quote = In his latest, The Red Chesterfield, he purposefully subverts the mystery form with a story that has clues that lead nowhere and motivations that are deliberately ambiguous. }} {{cite news | url = https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/three-to-see-thursday-arthurson-launch-rainbow-visions-opens-and-hideout-dance-party/ | title = Three to See Thursday: Arthurson launch, Rainbow Visions opens and Hideout dance party | work = [Edmonton Journal](/source/Edmonton_Journal) | author = Fish Griwkowsky | date = 2019-11-07 | page = | location = | isbn = | language = | trans-title = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2020-04-13 | quote = Prolific Edmonton author Wayne Arthurson launches his latest, a crime novel, family drama and fable all at once. }} }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Arthurson, Wayne}} Category:Writers from Alberta Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Canadian people of Cree descent --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Wayne Arthurson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Arthurson) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Arthurson?action=history)). 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