Joseph Boyden’s first two novels won virtually every prize that Canada has to offer. THREE DAY ROAD  (2005):  the Roger’s Writers Trust Prize; the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year; the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year; the Libris Book of the Year; and the Amazon/Canada First Novel Award. THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE (2008): the Scotiabank Giller Prize; the Libris Book of the Year; the Libris Author of the Year.

In 2012, Boyden was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canadian art and culture.  The following year, THE ORENDA was a number-one best seller there. 

Books by Joseph Boyden

The Orenda

by Joseph Boyden - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Christophe, a French Jesuit missionary, is ready to begin his enlightenment when he sets out in the New World to save the souls of "sauvages." When his native guides --- terrified by even a scent of the Iroquois --- abandon him, however, he is captured by a Huron warrior named Bird, along with a young Iroquois girl, Snow Falls.  The three are soon caught at the center of the Huron-Iroquois rivalry, compounded by the development of the settlement New France.