Port Moody playwright and actor Hiro Kanagawa was at Rideau Hall in Ottawa yesterday (Wednesday) to accept his Governor General Literary Award from Julie Payette.
Kanagawa earned the national prize — and $25,000 — for his work, Indian Arm, his fourth full-length play based on Ibsen's Little Eyolf but set on the north shore and centred on First Nations land (Kanagawa received a blessing from Leonard George, an elder with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation who is the youngest son of the late Chief Dan and Amy George, to pen the story).
Today (Thursday), the Japanese native was due to be at the Canada Council office to talk about his play.
