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  • 28 May 2021
    David Staines

    A History of Canadian Fiction

    How did Canadian fiction, essentially a late-nineteenth-century/early-twentieth-century creation, come to be a major avenue of world fiction in little more than one hundred years?      More than a century ago, a few fiction writers published highly regarded and incredibly popular books. Writers such as Ernest Thompson Seton and Marshall Saunders, Ralph Connor and Stephen […]

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  • 7 Mar 2017
    David Staines

    International Women’s Day: spotlight on Alice Munro

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, Alice Munro is far from unknown in literary award circles. For example, in Canada she has received three Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and two Giller Prizes; in the United States she became the first non-American to receive the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the […]

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  • 6 Mar 2017
    Heidi Macpherson

    International Women’s Day: The World’s Greatest Living Author is a Woman

    To celebrate International Women's Day from the 6th - 10th March 2017 we will be sharing brand new blog content from our authors which explore the themes of 'IWD 2017' and continue the discussion on feminism and women today and through the ages. In this blog post Heidi Macpherson, author of The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood, discusses some of the themes explored in Atwood's work.

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