Canadian journalist Nadim Roberts has been selected for a US$40,000 grant to fund his book about a storied highway project in the Northwest Territories.
Canadian journalist Nadim Roberts, as shown in this undated handout image, has been selected for a US$40,000 grant to fund his book about a storied highway project in the Northwest Territories. The U.K.-based Canadian writer is one of 10 recipients of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Cocksedge
The Whiting Foundation says Roberts' forthcoming book"The Highway" uses the history of the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway to explore the legacy of colonialism and residential schools in Canada's Far North.It tells the story of three boys who ran away from residential school in 1972 and attempted to walk hundreds of kilometres from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk -- a journey only one of them survived.
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