Kukum

Winner of the 2020 Prix France-Québec; winner of the 2021 Combat nationale des livres (“Battle of the Books,” the French-language equivalent of Canada Reads); winner of the 2020 VLEEL Award; shortlisted for the 2020 Jacques La Carrière Award. Kukum was a bestseller in French-language Canada in 2020 and has sold over 100,000 copies.  Author is Innu from Mashteuiatsh. His work has strongly focused on his own family history, as well as supporting other Indigenous writers with the two anthologies he has edited.  Anansi is using the beautifully illustrated cover from the Quebec edition, with details used for interior illustrations.