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Richard Van Camp
, 1971-
Richard Van Camp, the eldest of four boys, is a member of the Dogrib nation from Canada's Northwest Territories. He graduated from the University of Victoria and the En'owkin International School of Writing.
Awards and Honors
1997 Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award to promising young Canadian authors.
1999 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year (Prose - Children's Literature) award (for A Man Called Raven.
Online resources by or about Richard Van Camp:
From student to author: A Canlit rising star and his UVic Experience
Author: Richard Van Camp
Type: authorbio
Description: This essay by Van Camp, from a 1997 issue of The Torch (the University of Victoria's alumni magazine) details his experiences at the Unversity.
URL: http://communications.uvic.ca/Torch/fall97/vox.htm
Richard Van Camp
Author: Karen M. Strom
Type: authorbio
Description: Van Camp's biography.
URL: http://www.richardvancamp.org/
Richard Van Camp biography
Author: Writers In Electronic Residence
Type: authorbio
Description: Provides some biographical and bibliographical information on Van Camp.
URL: http://eduserv.edu.yorku.ca/~wier/rvancamp.html
Books by Richard Van Camp:
Van Camp, Richard. The Lesser Blessed
Vancouver : Douglas and McIntyre, 1996.
Genre: Fiction
Language: English
Description: 119 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 1550545256
Van Camp, Richard. A Man Called Raven
San Francisco, CA : Children's Book Press, 1997.
Genre: Fiction
Language: English
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Illustrated by George Littlechild.
A mysterious man tells two Indian brothers why they must not hurt the ravens that pester them.
Audience: Youth
ISBN: 0892391448
Van Camp, Richard. What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?
San Francisco, CA : Children's Book Press, 1998.
Genre: Fiction
Language: English
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Illustrated by George Littlechild.
On January's coldest day of the year in a small community in the Northwest Territories, a stranger to horses searches among family and friends for answers to an important question.
Audience: Youth
ISBN: 0892391545
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