''Canadian Authors'' is a Canadian biographical television series which aired on

CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...

in 1978.

Premise

Episodes of this series featured various Canadian authors and were produced at various CBC facilities throughout Canada.

Production

* Halifax:

Harry J. Boyle Harry Joseph Boyle (October 7, 1915 – January 22, 2005) was a Canadians, Canadian broadcaster and writer. He began his career in media working for a local radio station during the 1930s and later as district editor for the ''Stratford Beacon Her ...

, Alden Nowlan * Montreal:

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nin ...

, Michel Carneau, Jacques Godbout, Mordecai Richler, Yves Thériault, Hugh MacLennan * Ottawa: David Helwig, Naim Kattan, Blaise Mukherjee, Dorothy O'Connell * St. John's: Harold Horwood,

Joey Smallwood Joseph Roberts Smallwood (December 24, 1900 – December 17, 1991) was a Newfoundlander and Canadian politician. He was the main force who brought the Dominion of Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation in 1949, becoming the first premier of ...

* Toronto:

Carol Bolt Carol Bolt (August 25, 1941 – November 28, 2000) was a Canadian playwright. She was a founding member and, for several years, president of the Playwrights Union of Canada. Career Bolt's play ''Buffalo Jump'', an examination of Canada during ...

, Robertson Davies, Marion Engel,

Sylvia Fraser Sylvia Fraser (born Sylvia Lois Meyers; 8 March 1935 – 25 October 2022) was a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario. In her long year career as a journalist, she has written hu ...

, Tom Hendry * Vancouver:

Barry Broadfoot Barry Samuel Broadfoot, CM (January 21, 1926 – November 28, 2003) was a Canadian journalist, interviewer and history writer born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. History Broadfoot's first job at 17 years old was as a cub reporter who had to go to the hom ...

James Clavell James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian-born British (later naturalized American) writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best ...

, Jack Hodgins, Susan Musgrave * Winnipeg: Heather Robertson, Ken Mitchell, Robert Kroetsch, Dorothy Livesay

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast from Monday to Thursday at 2:30 p.m. from 1 November to 21 December 1978.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Canadian Authors (Tv Series) CBC Television original programming 1978 Canadian television series debuts 1978 Canadian television series endings