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Biblioasis
Biblioasis is a Canadian independent bookstore and publishing company, based in Windsor, Ontario, Windsor, Ontario."Biblioasis is no mirage" ''The Globe and Mail'', October 2, 2015. Founded by Dan Wells as a bookstore in 1998,"Biblioasis, indie publishing house, puts Windsor on the literary map with Giller finalists" CBC News, November 6, 2015. the company began publishing books in 2004 with its first titles being poetry collections by Salvatore Ala and Goran Simić (poet), Goran Simić.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Henighan
Stephen Patrick Glanvill Henighan (born 19 June 1960) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist and academic. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Henighan arrived in Canada at the age of five and grew up in rural eastern Ontario. He studied political science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he won the Potter Short Story Prize in April 1981. From 1984 to 1992 he lived in Montreal as a freelance writer and completed an M.A. at Concordia University. Between 1992 and 1996 he earned a doctorate in Spanish American literature at Wadham College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Henighan became the first writer to have stories published in three different editions of the annual ''May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories''. He also studied in Colombia, Romania and Germany. From 1996 to 1998 Henighan taught Latin American literature at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. Since 1999 he has taught at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Henighan has publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Robertson
Ray Robertson is a Canadian novelist and contributing book reviewer at ''The Globe and Mail'' who lives in Toronto, Ontario. His work, "Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live," was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction and long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction. "I Was There the Night He Died" was published in May 2014. In 2016, he published the non-fiction "Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)." In 2022, he published his newest novel, "Estates Large and Small". His poetry collection ''The Old Man in the Mirror Isn't Me'' was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for poetry in 2021. Bibliography Novels *''Home Movies''. Cormorant Books, 1997. *''Heroes''. Dundurn, 2000. *''Moody Food''. Doubleday, 2002. Santa Fe Writers Project, 2006. Biblioasis, 2009. VLB, 2010. *''Gently Down the Stream''. Cormorant Books, 2005. *''What Happened Later''. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2007. *''David''. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2009. *''I W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Flood
Cynthia Flood (born September 17, 1940)"Vancouver writer wins $10,000 Canadian fiction prize". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 25, 1990. is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton,W. H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. . "Creighton, Luella Sanders", p. 247. she grew up primarily in Toronto. After attending the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley she spent some years in the United States, where she married Maurice Flood before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1969."Figures of Authority" ''''. She has been active in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ducks, Newburyport
''Ducks, Newburyport'' is a 2019 novel by British author Lucy Ellmann. The novel is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, and consists of a single long sentence, with brief clauses that start with the phrase "the fact that" more than 19,000 times. The book runs over 1000 pages. It won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. Plot The novel's main character is an unnamed middle-aged woman who lives in Newcomerstown, Ohio. She is married, has four children, and was an adjunct college professor of history at the fictitious Peolia College. She narrates the novel from a first-person perspective and largely in present tense. She has been treated for at least two major health problems, including a heart defect as a child and cancer (possibly rectal) as an adult. She quit her college teaching job to recover from the cancer treatment. The narrator spends most of her time caring for her children and making pies and other baked goods, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Griggs
Terry Griggs is a Canadian author."Terry Griggs: Writers to Watch". ''Edmonton Journal'', 25 June 1995. Her book of short stories ''Quickening'' was a finalist at the 1991 Governor General's Awards, and she won the Marian Engel Award in 2003. Originally from Manitoulin Island, where her family operated a fishing lodge near Little Current, she studied English literature at the University of Western Ontario. She presently lives in Stratford, Ontario."New writer-in-residence tied to local publisher". ''Windsor Star'', 26 September 2009. Bibliography * 1990: ''Quickening'' ( Porcupine's Quill, ) * 1995: ''The Lusty Man'' (Porcupine's Quill, ) * 2002: ''Rogue's Wedding'' (Random House Canada, ) * 2009: ''Thought You Were Dead'' (Biblioasis, ) * 2009: ''Quickening'' (Biblioasis, ) * 2010: ''Nieve'' (Biblioasis, ) * 2017: ''The Discovery of Honey'' (Biblioasis, * 2018: ''The Iconoclast's Journal'' (Biblioasis, ;''Cat's Eye Corner series'' * 2000: ''Cat's Eye Corner'' (Raincoast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Smith (novelist)
Russell Claude Smith (born August 2, 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Canadian writer and newspaper columnist. Smith's novels and short stories are mostly set in Toronto, where he lives. Biography Smith grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He attended the Halifax Grammar School and Queen Elizabeth High School, and studied French literature at Queen's University, the University of Poitiers, and the University of Paris III. He has an MA in French from Queen's. As a freelance reporter and cultural commentator, he has published in the ''New York Review of Books, Details, The Walrus,Toronto Life, Flare, Now, EnRoute'' and other journals. He won the William Allen White award for magazine writing in 1995. From 1999 to 2020, Smith wrote a weekly column on the arts for ''The Globe and Mail''. On resigning from the column, Smith published an article in The Walrus blaming his departure on a lack of editorial support. He was the host of the CBC radio program on language, '' And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Page
Kathy Page (born 8 April 1958) is a British-Canadian writer. She is the author of seven previous novels, including ''The Story of My Face'' (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Orange Prize in 2002) and ''Alphabet'' (nominated for the Governor General's Awards, Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in Canada in 2005), as well as Canada's Giller Prize-shortlisted story collections ''Paradise & Elsewhere'' (2014) and ''The Two of Us'' (2016). Her latest novel, ''Dear Evelyn'', was published in 2018 by And Other Stories in Europe and Biblioasis in North America. She now lives on Salt Spring Island, Salt Spring Island, Canada. Early life Kathy Page was born on 8 April 1958 in London, U.K. She has an Honours BA in English and related literature from the University of York, and an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. In the late 1990s, she trained as a psychotherapist and worked briefly in a therapeutic community for drug users. She currently re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hardcastle
Kevin Hardcastle (born August 8, 1980) is a Canadian fiction writer, whose debut short story collection ''Debris'' won the Trillium Book Award in 2016 and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction in 2017."Carellin Brooks, Kevin Hardcastle and Sue Goyette win 2016 ReLit Awards" , March 9, 2017. The collection, published by in 2015, was also shortlisted for the |
Goran Simić (poet)
Goran Simić (born 1952) is a Serbian-Canadian poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina, recognized internationally for his works of poetry, essays, short stories and theatre. Biography Simić was born in Vlasenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1952 and has written eleven volumes of poetry, drama and short fiction, including ''Sprinting from the Graveyard'' (Oxford, 1997). His work has been translated into nine languages and has been published and performed in several European countries. One of the most prominent writers of the former Yugoslavia, Simić was trapped in the Siege of Sarajevo. In 1995 he and his family were able to settle in Canada as the result of a Freedom to Write Award from PEN. ''Immigrant Blues'' was Simic's second full-length volume of poems in English, and the first to be published in Canada. This was followed by two books published in 2005: a poetry collection, ''From Sarajevo, With Sorrow''—which involves a retranslation of the earlier, bowdlerized versions found in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Boyd (author)
Alex Boyd (born 1969) is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor, and critic. His essays and articles have appeared in the ''Globe and Mail'', and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Making Bones Walk, was published in 2007. From 2003 to 2008, he hosted the IV Lounge Reading Series in Toronto, presenting fiction readers alongside poets, and eventually co-editing IV Lounge Nights, an anthology to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series. He established ''Northern Poetry Review'', a site for poetry articles and reviews, in April 2006. In 2008, he established Digital Popcorn, a site for personal film reviews, and has helped launch the ''Best Canadian Essays'' series with Tightrope Books, co-editing the first two collections. His second book of poems ''The Least Important Man'' was published by Biblioasis in 2012, and his first novel ''Army of the Brave and Accidental'', a retelling of ''The Odyssey'' as modern mythology, was published in 2018 with Nightwood Editions. ''Army of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Turner (author)
Chris Turner (born July 25, 1973) is a Canadian journalist and author. Biography Turner was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where his father, a fighter pilot, was stationed with the Canadian military. As a military brat, he lived in the Canadian North, the American Midwest, and Germany. He graduated from Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario, in 1996 with an honours Bachelor of Arts in history. He also holds a journalism degree from Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto (1998). While at Ryerson, he completed an editorial internship at '' Shift'' magazine. Following graduation from Ryerson, Turner reported on culture and technology for '' Shift'' from 1998 to 2003. His writing has also appeared in, ''The Walrus'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Globe and Mail'', ''The Independent'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''Time'', ''The Guardian'', ''Utne Reader'', ''Adbusters'' and '' The South China Morning Post''. His latest work is ''How To Breathe Underwater'' (2014), a collection of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Bourrie
Mark Bourrie (born 1959 or 1960) is a Canadian journalist and author. He has worked as a contract lecturer at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. In 2020, his biography of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, ''Bushrunner: The Adventures of Pierre Radisson'', won the RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. Education Bourrie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Waterloo. He also holds a diploma in public policy and administration from the University of Guelph, a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University, a doctorate in Canadian media history from the University of Ottawa, and a law degree in from the University of Ottawa. He is a member of the Ontario bar. Bourrie's PhD thesis was on Canada's World War II press censorship system and was published by Douglas & McIntyre as "The Fog of War". Career He worked for two decades as a freelance journalist and feature writer, primarily for ''The Globe and Mail'' from 1981 to 1989 and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |