Category: India
Allan Jones Ascends his Cliff
Sonia Tilson reviews Beyond Vision by Allan Jones (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018, 311 pages, hardcover). In this extraordinary autobiography, Beyond Vision (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2018), Allan Jones describes how he […]
A Fine Neustadt
Does winning an international prize count as abroad? The Neustadt prize “was established in 1969 as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature, then renamed the Books Abroad / Neustadt […]
Respirer et écrire
I have been thinking about Sara Jeanette Duncan lately. I should be thinking about her work, but I’ve been thinking about her. OK, when I cough (a lingering cold), I […]
The Innocent Traveller
July 2021. Towards a celebration of the upcoming tenth anniversary of Canadian Writers Abroad, check out this post from July 2012. There is nothing quite like poking about second-hand bookshops […]
Sara and Edward
I linger’d; all within was noise Of songs, and clapping hands, and boys That crash’d the glass and beat the floor; Where once we held debate, a band Of youthful […]
Exploration and Empire
For the past two Monday evenings I have fallen asleep in front of the BBC program “Empire.” During “Making Ourselves at Home,” on March 5, host Jeremy Paxman went to […]
Karyn Huenemann and Sara Jeannette Duncan
Karyn Huenemann is the first contributor (other than me) to Canadian Writers Abroad – and her article makes clear why she should be. She has lived in England, India, California, […]
Sara Jeannette Duncan
It’s time to talk about writers who lived abroad. I want to start with a Canadian writer who left home to write and never moved back. She was given the […]
Compare and Contrast
I start making comparisons as soon as we arrive at our flat in London. “Oh, look, the furniture is the same as in our place in Vienna.” And New Delhi […]
Canadian Writers Abroad 