David A. Robertson is a member of Norway House Cree Nation and lives in Winnipeg.
David is a two-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner and has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and the Writer’s Union of Canada Freedom to Read award. He has received several other accolades for his work as a writer for children and adults, podcaster, public speaker, and social advocate. He was honoured with a Doctor of Letters by the University of Manitoba in 2023 for outstanding contributions to the arts and distinguished achievements.
In his bestselling memoir, Black Water, he shares the story a son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture who takes his Cree father on a trip to the family trapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future
