There are many reasons why fiction enjoys reasonably high esteem in Canada, and one of the most significant of them is that in most areas of even our recent history, we are a country without written documentation—this not just in the aboriginal sphere, but in that of our settling peoples too. Making home, not writing anything…
Noah Richler
Noah Richler’s This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada won the 2007 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He is currently at work on a book about the Digby Neck, Nova Scotia.
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Biography, that earliest form of story-telling, is a complicated art that has undergone several permutations of late. The arc of a life provides a narrative thread at its simplest: a birth, a life and a death that allow the author to praise or damn his subject and throw some light upon the age. A lot of the…