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Essential Writers Series
Dedicated to individual writers. Every title is edited by a guest editor and contains essays by different critics, scholars, and colleagues, an in-depth interview, and biographical notes. Ideal tools for students and anyone interested in the work of write
Here is a lifetime's worth of reflection, of illumination, by one of North America's finest...
A master of magic realism Jack Hodgins has set his novels in rural Vancouver Island...
In 1978, a young Canadian writer named Aritha van Herk captured international attention by winning...
A great story teller, Barry Callaghan is one of the most distinctive man of letters...
Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet...
This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of...
Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe in 2002, Austin Clarke has published 11 novels, six short-story collections, four memoirs, and two non-fiction pieces. His latest work, a long-form poem titled Where the Sun Shines Best (Guernica Editions), was published in 2013. Storm of Fortune, the second novel in his Toronto Trilogy about the lives of Barbadian immigrants, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award in 1973. The Origin of Waves won the Rogers Communications Writers' Development Trust Prize for Fiction in 1997. In 1999 his ninth novel, The Question, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. In...
"I can think of no other Canadian author writing at the time who documented the West Indian immigrant's condition not only for West Indian immigrants themselves and their descendants, but also for white Canadians, so that they could see the racist and discriminatory manner in which those immigrants were treated."
