Don Coles, the Canadian poet and teacher who died on Nov. 29 at the age of 90, didn't begin publishing until he was 47. That was typical for the poet, who worked slowly and deliberately, ... Read More »
December 11, 2017
In writing about the emergence of CanLit over the past 60 years, both Nick Mount and Elaine Dewar reference the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949–1951, more colloquially known ... Read More »
December 8, 2017
When the controversy around Joseph Boyden’s Indigenous heritage broke wide open last year, it did not come as a shock to author and journalist Carleigh Baker. “The Joseph Boyden conversation had been going on for ... Read More »
December 8, 2017
When guest editors Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux finalized the lineup for Granta 141, a special issue of the renowned literary quarterly dedicated to new writing out of Canada, they included an essay by Acadian ... Read More »
November 21, 2017
The Writers' Trust made it a night for honouring women at its annual awards ceremony in Toronto on Nov. 14. All four prizes for a body of work were presented to female authors, though the ... Read More »
November 14, 2017
When William Weintraub's debut novel, Why Rock the Boat?, was released in 1961, the author's former colleagues at the Montreal Gazette might have been forgiven for feeling that the title was just a tad ironic. The ... Read More »
November 9, 2017
When people think about Canadian literature, dime-store pulp is not the first genre that comes to mind. That may be an oversight, as literary historian Brian Busby can attest. Busby is the driving force behind ... Read More »
October 12, 2017
In the final years of his life, Leonard Cohen stopped work on an album he and producer Pat Leonard had been collaborating on. The fabled singer-songwriter had been felled by what he referred to as ... Read More »
October 6, 2017 | Filed under: Authors
The Swedish Academy returned to form this year, at least somewhat. After taking some heat last year for its unconventional choice of Bob Dylan as the Nobel laureate in literature, this year the academy named Japanese-born ... Read More »
October 5, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
It's official. There is no one title that has emerged as a favourite for English-language literary award juries in Canada. This morning, the Canada Council for the Arts announced the nominees for the Governor General's ... Read More »
October 4, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
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