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Will Aitken is an American-Canadian novelist, journalist and film critic.
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, he has been based in
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since moving to that city to attend
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, in 1973. He has also worked as an arts journalist and film critic for a variety of media outlets,"Aitken goes big on Japan"
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'', in 1989. He has since published two further novels. He taught
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in Montreal. In 2011, he published ''Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic'', a critical analysis of
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's Queer Film Classics series. His 2018 book, ''Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove and the Art of Resistance'', was published by University of Regina Press. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018
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'', September 26, 2018.


Works


Novels

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''. 1989, . *''A Visit Home''. 1993, . *''Realia''. 2000, . *''The Swells''. 2021, .


Non-fiction

*''Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic''. 2011, . *''Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance''. 2018, .


Anthologies

*''Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism'' (ed. Peter Dubé). 2008.


References

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