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Emily Carr’s first book, published in 1941, was titled Klee Wyck ("Laughing One"), in honour of the name that the Native people of the west coast gave to her. This collection of twenty-one word sketches about Native people describes her visits and travels as she painted their totem poles and villages. Vital and direct, aware and poignant, it is as well regarded today as when it was first published in 1941 to instant and wide acclaim, winning the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction. In print ever since, it has been read and loved by several generations of Canadians, and has also been translated into French and Japanese.
NOTE: This Penguin Classics edition of Klee Wyck has been reset from the original edition, published by Oxford University Press in 1941. Quite a few passages in the first edition were expurgated by the editor of the 1951 educational edition published by Clarke, Irwin and Company and have only now been restored in their entirety, fifty-five years later. In each case, Carr’s sentiments lay with the Native.
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