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Born: June 17, 1979 Occupation: Writer Canadian novelist and poet won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of Canada's highest literary honors, for his debut novel, Reproduction, in 2019. Williams, who was born in Trinidad and raised outside of Toronto, made his literary debut with a poetry collection titled You Know Who You Are in 2010. After thumbing through the books on his mother's shelf, Williams was inspired to buy Margaret Atwood's 1964 poetry collection The Circle Game. Williams was referring to what would become his debut novel, Reproduction. [Extracted from the article]

Date of birth: 1969 Occupation: Writer By early 2020, David Chariandy had published only three books - two novels and one work of nonfiction. As a teenager, Chariandy read mostly science-fiction and fantasy novels until he came upon the works of Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, which led him to develop an interest in literature. SOUCOUYANT: A NOVEL OF FORGETTING Chariandy's first novel, Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting, was published in 2007. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a criticism of "The Deptford Trilogy" by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. It mentions the theme of miracles in the trilogy as well as discussing thoughts from Davies' diary that indirectly influenced the trilogy.

The article focuses on author Katherena Vermette on her perspectives about violence against women and her perseverance to achieve hope on equality for women. It stresses the influence of Vermette in the creation of complexity and promotion of social issues experienced by women in Canada through her literary works. It also highlights the success of her published book "The Break," featuring life and struggles of Indigenous women.

The article presents a reprint of Mariianne Mays' interview with Canadian poet, novelist and feminist Nicole Brossard, which was published in the fall 2008 issue of the magazine. Topics mentioned include her thoughts on the relationship between language and feminism and the connections among feminine and feminist, how her writing is affected by her identity as a lesbian, and the importance of theory to story or poetry.

The article offers information on two conferences based on language study and teaching. The "Humanistic Foreign Language Teaching and Learning I. Innovative Methods and Approaches" held in Nitra, Slovakia on September 14-15, 2012 dedicated to the latest trends in the areas of foreign language teaching theory and the 11th Biannual Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English held in Budapest, Hungary on January 24-26, 2013 focuses on British, American, and Canadian literatures.

The article focuses on the Vancouver Writers Fest held at Granville Island in British Columbia in October 2012. According to artistic director Hal Wake, the event is aimed at encouraging direct engagement between writers and their readers. The fest provides an opportunity for Americans to see Canadian literature and literary culture. It is the brainchild of Alma Lee, who was able to put up an event featuring writers like Margaret Atwood.

The article offers the author's insights on the comparisons of nature literature in the U.S. and Canada. The author shares that most of Canadian literature is rooted in nature while American West literature has a feverish wilderness pitch. He says that American writers are inspired by naturalist Henry David Thoreau and have revered the wilderness as the Eden. He adds that writer Northrop Frye wrote that Canadian writing is marked by the natural world.

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.

Presents an interview with Canadian writer Lisa Moore. When asked about why there has been conspicuous surge in Newfoundland literature, she said that people want new landscape in literature and Newfoundland writers provided a landscape at the right moment. She comments on the role of tourism in relation to commercializing culture. Furthermore, she believes that writing is a redemptive act because they reap from experience when they write.

The author explores the subjects of Canadian novels. She states that official politics has never been a prevalent theme in Canadian fiction and that political figures are occasionally the focus of fiction. She claims that a lot of contemporary Canadian novels focus on the middle class. She also mentions some novels that explore class and labor conflicts, including Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" and John Bemrose's "The Island Walkers."

This article looks at travel and tourism in Nova Scotia. The article recommends visiting the Alexander Graham Bell Museum, Louisburg, an restored eighteenth-century French fortress, Annapolis Royal, and Kejimkujik National Park. The article discusses Francophone Acadian culture in the Pubnicos and the difficulties in traveling to Nova Scotia.

This essat explores the themes of the writing of Newfoundland novelist Wayne Johnston. This shows in many ways the unearthing of parental secrets by using many of his own family memoirs. It shows how parents are often predefined by their past and how their parents and all before them raised children and developed families and family traditions. The family lines and the strength that they carry through all of the generations was discussed and that you see this best when you speak of old times and glance through books of memoirs of the days and years that have passed.

Profiles Canadian fiction writer Alice Munro. Reference to her story "Carried Away"; Reference to Munro's collection of short stories entitled "Runaway"; Statement that Munro has won a National Book Critics Circle Award; Reference to her book "The Beggar Maid"; Reference to Munro's novel "Lives of Girls and Women"; Discussion of Munro's childhood and marriage.

The article focuses on the culture of Canada as it is depicted in several books, including "The Hockey Sweater," by Roch Carrier and "The Thumb in the Box," by Ken Roberts. The author presents his views on the origin of Canadian humorous writing. A discussion of jokes about Newfoundlanders, or "Newfies," is also included in the article.

An interview with African Canadian author and editor Althea Prince is presented. Among the topics she discussed are the impact of the Writing Thru "Race" conference on Canadian literature, her book "The Politics of Black Women's Hair," and the biggest feminist challenge for women especially African Canadian women.

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.

Opinion. Presents the author's views on the search for the origin of the poem `Canadian Boat Song.' How the author first search for the Canadian author of the poem and came to know the author as Scot; The poem's few linguistic difficulties; The search for books and periodicals in which the author and the problem of authorship had been examined; Influence of the Gaelic origin of the Song; More information.

Profiles the life of Canadian fiction writer Alice Munro. Publication of her short story collection 'Friend of My Youth'; Her early career and education; Themes in her work, including sexuality; Settings of her stories.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Antisocial Text," which examined the Arab-Israeli peace agreement signed in Oslo, Norway; "The Fat-Checker," which reviewed the book "Cross Channel," by Julian Barnes; "Sins of Admission," which argued against affirmative action; "Undue Credit," which discussed tax reduction; "The Wiscousta Syndrome," which provided a reading and criticism of Canadian literature.

The past may be a foreign country for most of us, the place where they do things differently, but it's a writer's natural home, the source of memory, meaning and--above all--stories. Much of the last decade's best Canadian fiction, from Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" to Wayne Johnston's "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams," has burrowed deep into history, personal and political, national and global. In "Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen," theatre critic Kate Taylor, born in France and raised in Ottawa, creates a moving meditation on Parisian and Toronto history. But nothing plays with history like Michel Basilires' stunning debut novel "Black Bird," a wildly inventive and darkly funny take on the October Crisis.

Focuses on the emigration of Mordecai Richler to France. Position of Richler in the literary tradition of Quebec; Creativity of Richler and his criticism of Canada; Discussion of the book 'St. Urbain's Horseman.'

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.'

Examines several working-class literature in Canada. Includes `Eight Men Speak'; `Waste Heritage'; `This Time a Better Earth.'

The article reports on the views of Canadian professor of English Nick Mount regarding the growth of Canadian literature beginning in the 1960s. It discusses the number of new Canadian authors and publishers, and the conditions that allowed the increase in leisure time to read and economic support of literature.

The article presents the author's insights regarding the poetry in Canada. Topics discussed include the style and theme of Canadian literature, literary expansion of Malthusian proportions which started with poetry and has changed the poetic environment, and the existence of factionalism and poetry readings.

The article offers brief profiles of small publishers and presses in Canada. Companies listed include Coach House Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, Biblioasis, Insomniac Press, and Anvil Press. Topics discussed include acceptance of unsolicited manuscripts, publishing for Canadian authors, and book design.

The article presents a brief profile of Canadian author Anne Hébert. Emphasis is given to depictions of women and emotions in books such as "The Torrent" and "Kamouraska," her relationship with her cousin and poet Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, and awards and recognition of her work in francophone countries.

The article presents information on Canadian crime writing. Crime writer David Skene-Melvin believes that Canadian crime writing is "more subtle, more psychological, more caring" than in the U.S. He says that Canadian crime writing in particular and Canadian literature in general, suffered from a serious problem: the slighting of Canadian authors.

Presents information on several Canadian fiction books. "Barometer Rising," by Hugh MacLennan; "The Tin Flute," by Gabrielle Roy; "Selected Stories," by Alice Munro.

Canada is a dangerous place in the collective memory of Turin. Stylized Mohawk warriors loom menacingly over the front windows of the northern Italian city's 300-year-old Palazzo Carignano. Formed in solid brick, they represent the vivid recollections of Turinese soldiers who fought in New France's 17th-century Iroquois wars. Plus ça change. For the 50-odd Canadian writers, publishers, public servants and journalists who went to Italy in mid-May to see Canada honoured at Turin's annual international book fair. Every year for the past decade, a local committee in the Italian town of Castel Goffredo has picked a country, named five of its books and rounded up 135 copies of each. Then the citizens start reading; at summer's end they award the Acerbi prize. But nothing beats Ottawa's seed money, which has been astonishingly successful for a modest cost. About $50,000 a year has fostered a network of Canadian studies departments at seven Italian universities. There are now dozens of academics interested in the country, according to University of Milan professor Luigi Bruti Liberati.Over the past decade Canadian literature has been celebrated and welcomed with open arms around the world.

Discusses the views of poet Robert Bringhurst on Canada's literary history. How Bringhurst conveys the artistry of poet Skaay; Views on the Canadian literature.

Interprets imaginary scenes about wind from Canadian literature.

Explores the existence of Canadian literature and the impact of the book `Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature.' Performance of the Canadian sales of poetry books in the 1960s; Motifs in Canadian literature; Negative side of Canadian culture.

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

Focuses on Canadians considered as the best writers of fiction in English. Themes tackled; Writer Robertson Davies' reason for calling Canada a 'nation of losers'; Themes tackled by Davies, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood, Brian Moore and Mordechai Richler; Comparison between Canadians and Americans; Famous novels of the authors.

Focuses on the landscape scenes of Canada from Canadian literature. Information on the city of St. Lawrence; Reference to `Allo Police'; Description of the atmosphere felt in the city.

The article discusses the significant contributions of British-born sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill to the early literary and scientific history of Canada.

The article features "Room," the 35-year-old Canadian literary journal for and about women, in 2012. The publication reportedly has a young and energetic feel because of the ever-changing female volunteers that run it, and welcomes fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction and reviews. The article notes that "Room's" past contributors include Carol Shields, Audrey Thomas and Anne Cameron, and that it has a website with frequent updates and calls for submissions.

The article discusses the periodical "Grain: The Journal of Eclectic Writing," a publication of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild. The journal is said to focus on Canadian writing and to include artwork. The article mentions authors published in the journal, who include Jonathan Ball, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Xi Chuan. Advice for contributors to the journal is offered.

The article profiles Canadian author Shane Koyczan. Having grown up in Yellowknife and Penticton, Shane embodies the small-town artist's dream. After studying creative writing at Okanagan University College, he moved to the big city to seek out a writing scene and stumbled across his calling. Just six years since being named the first non-American winner of the highly coveted individual title at the National Poetry Slam, Shane is in Toronto to be honoured at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.

The article reports that poet Irving Layton's life is an almost perfect example of how a reputation is made or rejected according to the spirit of the times. Layton's personal beliefs mirrored the 1960s mores of sexual and cultural liberation, which inspired Layton to write some wonderful poetry. If we lived in different times, Layton would have been recognized both then and now as an important public intellectual as well as a fine poet, in particular for his book "Taking Sides."