If you are at an event, you will hear Eden before you see her with the sounds of that joviality bursting from deep within her.

It’s how she disarms everyone around her.

She is relaxed and bubbly, laughing at everything and nothing. It’s been 10 years with the Trickster.(Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin)Įden Robinson is very easy to talk with. “But I have multiple book ideas in the back of my head. “Yeah, it was, ‘Oh, I wonder what they would have done next?,’ ” said Robinson, taking a deep breath and smiling. With the Trickster stories now out of her hands, Robinson, whose books have been part of the high school curriculum over the years, admits she felt some loss when she finished this last tome and realized she had to say goodbye to Jared and the rest of the gang. She’s bubbly, effervescent, really laughs quick and has earned our total respect.” I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that everyone loves her here in Kitimat and the Village. “She pulls the attention of the world to a place and culture not readily known, to the Haisla in the Kitamaat Village and to a superbly unique First Nations voice. Her popularity and great successes somehow feel, in a small way, like our very own,” said Charron.

“Sharing great Eden news in a small community is always so uplifting. “The more I suffer the more my characters suffer, so I was in mental distress for the whole second draft so it came out everyone died pretty gruesome deaths,” said Robinson, who has an MFA and an honorary doctoral degree from the University of B.C. Laughing is what Robinson does, and a conversation with her even about some hard times is wonderfully punctuated with humour.

Robinson paused, shrugged her shoulders and laughed. “It was spring so my pollen allergies were just going nuts, but I couldn’t tell if it were just my allergies or it was COVID,” said Robinson recently via Zoom from her Haisla Nation home on the northern B.C. Article contentĭue to that exposure, Robinson, a winner of the prestigious $50,000 Writers Trust Fellowship, had to do two weeks of quarantine at Haig-Brown. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.

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