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Jordan Abel
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| Born | British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Academic, poet |
| Alma mater | University of Alberta University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University |
| Period | 2010s-present |
Jordan Abel is a talented writer and professor from Canada. He writes amazing poetry and novels. He also teaches at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.
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About Jordan Abel's Early Life and Education
Jordan Abel was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father is Nisga'a and his mother is white. He grew up in Barrie, Ontario.
Jordan went to several universities to study. He earned a degree in English from the University of Alberta in 2008. Later, he got a master's degree from the University of British Columbia in 2012. He finished his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University in 2019.
Jordan Abel's Creative Work and Books
Jordan Abel's writing often explores important topics. He looks at how people settled in new lands. He also examines how this history affected Indigenous peoples. He uses a special way of writing poetry. He takes words from old books and rearranges them. This creates new meanings and ideas.
For example, he has used old Western novels. He also used writings about Totem Poles. He cuts up and mixes these texts. This helps him tell new stories.
Award-Winning Poetry Collections
Jordan's first poetry book was The Place of Scraps. It came out in 2013. This book used writings from a person who studied Indigenous cultures. It won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. It was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2014.
His second book, Un/inhabited, was published in 2015. The CBC called it one of the best books of that year.
In 2017, his third poetry book, Injun, won a big award. It received the Griffin Poetry Prize. The poems in this book were based on 91 old Western novels.
Memoirs and Novels by Jordan Abel
Jordan Abel also writes other types of books. His memoir, NISHGA, was published in 2020. A memoir is a true story about someone's life. This book was nominated for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
In 2023, his novel Empty Spaces came out. A novel is a fictional story. This book was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. It also won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 2024. This is a very important award for Canadian writers.
List of Poetry Books
- The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013)
- Un/inhabited (Talonbooks, 2015)
- Injun (Talonbooks, 2016)
- NISHGA (Penguin Random House, 2020)
List of Fiction Books
- Empty Spaces (Penguin Random House, 2023)
