From here, Tom tells a story of surprising turns and characters. He blames himself for killing his mother and sister and destroying their coastal community. In the opening pages of The Back of the Turtle, the reader is dropped into Gabriel Quinn's life, just as he's about to end it on a barren beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean. And he ended the year as the 2014 winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction for his new novel The Back of the Turtle. His book, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, won both the RBC Taylor Prize as well as the B.C. He started 2014 winning not one, but two, of Canada's top literary prizes for non-fiction. (Trina Koster/Canadian Press) (Trina Koster/Canadian Press)It's been a banner year for Thomas King. Before these, though, came A Coyote Solstice. It’s been the year of Thomas King, with big prizes for The Inconvenient Indian and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for The Back of the Turtle.
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