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Eden Robinson is a Haisla / Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was the 1998 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and named a notable book by the Globe and Mail. She published her novel Blood Sports in 2006.