Over a career spanning seven decades, Michel Tremblay has often turned to his past for inspiration. Novels and plays set in the Plateau Mont-Royal or depicting French Canadian migration from the prairies to Montreal are loosely based on his own family’s history. Except for a few works of non-fiction, which are more explicitly autobiographical, such as Un ange cornu avec des ailes de tôle (A horned angel with wings of…
Catherine Khordoc
Catherine Khordoc teaches Québécois literature at Carleton University. Her translation of Mélikah Abdelmoumen’s Baldwin, Styron, and Me was a finalist for the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards.
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Dany Laferrière is known for writing novels that tend to be autobiographical or at least autofictional. He talks about his immigration to Montreal from Port-au-Prince and his early days as a writer in his 1985 debut, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (later published in English as How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired…
Nationalism is having a moment — at least in Canada. As I write this from my home in Ottawa, a reinvigorated pride in this country is palpable. People who were not feeling especially celebratory in recent years are eager to make it clear that we are a sovereign, independent country. There’s no talk of a fifty-first state in these…