Richard Wagamese, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Wagamese

Ojibwe writer

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1955

Date of Death: 11-Mar-2017

Profession: screenwriter, poet, biographer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was a Canadian author and journalist.
An Ojibwe from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in northwestern Ontario, he was best known for his 2012 novel Indian Horse, which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013, was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads, and was adapted into a feature length film in 2017.