Month: October 2013

Canadian LiteratureDebra MartensNew Zealand

Books, prizes and survey

Half of voters who did the survey were against, and half minus one were in favour of Catton’s novel being in competition for the GG’s Lit Award. There you go. […]

/ October 29, 2013
Eleanor Catton
Canadian LiteratureNew Zealand

Trans-national Literature

  There are times when Canadian Writers Abroad seems quaint. Do people stay at home most of their lives and then undergo a great upheaval by moving abroad? This is […]

/ October 22, 2013
Canadian LiteratureUnited Kingdom

Munro’s and Jerry’s Nobel

This post is in celebration of Alice Munro‘s Nobel Prize in Literature. The quick facts: she is the first Canadian writer, the 13th woman, and the 27th English speaking author […]

/ October 16, 2013
Canadian LiteratureInterviewsUnited Kingdom

A Cloistered Life

Jane Christmas is a Canadian writer living in England. Her recent memoir, And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life is a fall 2013 publication with Greystone Books. […]

/ October 8, 2013