Tomson Highway, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tomson Highway

Canadian playwright and novelist

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1951

Place of Birth: Brochet, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada

Profession: writer, playwright, songwriter, children's writer, novelist, librettist, musicologist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Tomson Highway, CM (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author.
He is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S.
Chalmers Award.Highway has also published a novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway’s death of AIDS.
He also has the distinction of being the librettist of the first Cree language opera, The Journey or Pimooteewin.