Occupation writer, artist Nationality Canadian | Notable works Lightfinder Name Aaron Paquette | |
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Genre fantasy, young adult literature | ||
Aaron Paquette | I am Indigenous
Aaron Paquette is a Canadian writer and artist, who was a winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2015 for his debut young adult fantasy novel Lightfinder.
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As a painter, his most notable work is a public art mural at Edmonton's Grandin LRT Station. He also created several iconic images used in the Idle No More movement.
Paquette, a Métis of Cree, Cherokee and Norwegian descent, is also the president of Cree8 Success, a consulting firm.
He ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in the riding of Edmonton Manning in the 2015 federal election, losing to Ziad Aboultaif of the Conservative Party.
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