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The article presents an interview with Polish author Eva Stachniak. Stachniak explains the importance of research and her academic training to her fiction writing. She discusses her decision to begin writing historical novels following the publication of her work "Necessary Lies," and notes the similarities between Montreal, Quebec and her home city Wrocław, Poland.

Features Robert Kroetsch considered as `Mr. Canadian Postmodern' and his novels. Biographical acoount of Kroetsch; Information on his fiction works; His style in writing.

Focuses in Icelandic-Canadian literature and minority writing in Canada. Influence of multiculturalism on Canadian literature; Dynamics underlying minority writing and minority literary criticism in Canada; Original idea behind the settlement of New Iceland.

Features Margaret Atwood and her literary works. Her style of writing; Her attempt to focus on Canadian experiences; Her childhood.

Discusses the contribution of Leon Rooke's literary achievement to the emergence of Canadian writing and criticism onto the world stage. Biography of Rooke; His style in writing; Details on his works.

Explores M.T. Kelly's strategies of resistance to stereotypical constructions of Native peoples through his portrait in his novel `A Dream Like Mine.' Award won by the novel; Details on the novel.

Focuses on Caribbean Canadian literature. How the author's appreciation for Canadian Caribbean literature started; Information on the 1960 issue of `Tamarack' magazine embracing West Indian writers; Details on several Canadian Caribbean writers.

Focuses on Canadian literature. Themes; Character description; Portrait of Canadians; Writers; Identity questions; Archival structures.

Focuses on the works of Canadian immigrant authors Joy Kogawa and Bharati Mukherjee. Characteristics of Canadian immigrant literature; Power of words to imprison and to release; Kogawa's book `Obasan'; Mukherjee's short story collection `Darkness.'

Introduces a series of articles which focused on authors who have reshaped Canadian Literature over the years.