"I've always been interested in why people travel and what they might think the value of travel is. Whenever I get an offer to go travelling, I always say no.
"But over the years, travel has not held the interest for me that it used to. I used to be a pretty good traveller when I was young - I once jumped on a tramp steamer in San Francisco and went to Australia and New Zealand for about three years. "My partner, Helen Hoy, and I, she and I travel. "It certainly helps book sales, there's no question about that!" It does offer validation, but you never write for those prizes. They're always that extra thing that comes along at the end of a project. "It does offer validation, but you never write for those prizes. How do you feel about award nominations at this stage in your career?
King spoke with CBC Books at length about his books, his career and his approach to writing. It won the 2021 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. His latest book, Indians on Vacation, was on the shortlist for the 2020 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the longlist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the shortlist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. King was the first Indigenous person to deliver a CBC Massey Lecture in 2003. His bestselling books include Truth & Bright Water, The Inconvenient Indian, Green Grass, Running Water, The Back of the Turtle and the DreadfulWater mystery series. Thomas King is a Canadian American writer of Cherokee and Greek ancestry who is regarded as one of the most influential Indigenous writers and scholars of his generation.
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