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CanLit is Sexy: Warming Wintry Readers

January 19, 2012, By Susanne Marshall
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The tumblr blog CanLit is Sexy has paired famous Canadian authors with naughty reconfigurations of some of their best-known titles into pickup lines, to hilarious effect. Laugh, blush, and enjoy!

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2011 GG Winners Announced

November 15, 2011, By Susanne Marshall
The Governor General Literary Awards

Congratulations to all the winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards for 2011! In the English category, those recognized for their superb publications this year are: Fiction – Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (Anansi) Non-Fiction – Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life and Times (Knopf) Poetry – Phil Hall, Killdeer (BookThug)

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Edugyan Wins Giller

November 9, 2011, By Susanne Marshall

Congratulations to Esi Edugyan, winner of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize! Edugyan’s win was announced at last night’s Giller gala. Half-Blood Blues, set amidst the jazz scene in Europe before and after the Second World War, has been greatly praised since its release

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The Sisters Brothers Wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

November 2, 2011, By Susanne Marshall
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Kudos to Patrick deWitt, whose second novel, The Sisters Brothers, has won 2011′s Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Nominated for numerous prizes this year, the book’s inventive characterization and genre-bending take on the Western are earning it acclaim from readers across Canada.

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Prize Pressure vs. the Pleasure of Meandering

October 27, 2011, By Susanne Marshall

At this time of year, it’s easy to get caught up in reader anxiety: why haven’t I picked up Book X yet? Friend Y has already read book Z and I haven’t! Zounds, I still haven’t read all the shortlisted books from last year’s Prize A! Some of this stress makes sense, as after all, [...]

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CanLit Awards Season Warms Up

October 6, 2011, By Susanne Marshall

Aaand they’re off! It’s the Rogers Writers’ Trust first out of the gate, with the Giller close behind and the Governor General’s Literary Awards coming up fast. Whatever you think of the growth of “prize culture,” in Canada autumn is the season of words on the page, Word on the Street, and the hope, speculation, [...]

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Stories About Storytellers: Alistair MacLeod

September 30, 2011, By Douglas Gibson
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TCE Blog is proud to present the third excerpt from Douglas Gibson’s new book Stories About Storytellers, appearing every Friday.

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Stories About Storytellers: Stephen Leacock

September 22, 2011, By Douglas Gibson
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TCE Blog is proud to present the second excerpt from Douglas Gibson’s new book Stories About Storytellers, appearing every Friday.

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Stories About Storytellers: Alice Munro

September 15, 2011, By Douglas Gibson
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TCE Blog is proud to present the first of eight excerpts from Douglas Gibson’s new book Stories About Storytellers, which will appear each Friday.

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Education, Literature, Reading In Canadian

Learning to Read Canadian

September 8, 2011, By Susanne Marshall
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Understanding the depth of our literary history and the breadth of style, scope and subject of our fiction, poetry, and drama brings us together as a cultural unit.

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