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In the Works

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A SHINING EXAMPLE: After publishing his last two novels with McClelland & Stewart, Austin Clarke has placed his next with Patrick Crean and Thomas Allen Publishers. The Shining Hoe, a plantation tale of incest and ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Taylor Prize goes yearly

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The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction has taken an important step in raising its profile and impact. Previously awarded every two years, the award will now be given annually.Noreen Taylor, the sponsor of the ... Read More »

April 20, 2004

In the Works

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SHIPSHAPE: Derek Lundy, author of Godforsaken Sea, has been commissioned by Knopf Canada to write a second seafaring epic, The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail, an account ... Read More »

April 20, 2004

In the Works

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GEORGICS: George Elliott Clarke is drawing on family history for his next work, a novel based on the 1949 hanging of two of Clarke’s cousins, who were charged with murder. HarperCollins Canada commissioned George and ... Read More »

April 20, 2004

A champion of the everyday

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Canadian literature lost one of its most beloved authors when Carol Shields yielded to a long battle with cancer on July 16, at her home in Victoria. Though she began publishing relatively late in life, ... Read More »

April 19, 2004

Mordecai Richler: 1931-2001

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Mordecai Richler was a hedgehog not a fox. His prickliness was legendary but I mean what the ancient Greek poet meant by his distinction between two kinds of thinker: Richler was single-minded. He knew one ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Events