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Kim Echlin was born in Burlington, Ontario in 1955. While attending Aldershot High School, Echlin's writing was noticed by her English teacher. [1] She studied at McGill University and Paris-Sorbonne University, before completing a PhD in English literature at York University, writing a thesis about the translation of the Ojibway Nanabush myths.
Dear Canada is a series of historical novels for children, published by Scholastic Canada and popular in school libraries and classrooms. [1] Each text explores significant events in Canadian history through the eyes of a female child. [1] First published in 2001, they are similar to the Dear America series.
Books in Canada was the most comprehensive book review journal in the 1980s and early 1990s, giving a broad overview of the Canadian literary scene that was valued by writers who wanted to keep in touch. [6] Books in Canada appeared nine times per year. It was sold in book stores and newsstands across the country, and by subscription.
“Oh, Canada,” a stiff and cerebral eulogy, skims along the confessions of a dying man named Leonard Fife (Gere), a Montreal-based documentarian who has agreed to let his former students record ...
Straying from the hotheaded “Taxi Driver” style that has dominated much of his career, Paul Schrader pays ruminative and respectful tribute to his late friend, novelist Russell Banks, who gave ...
In September 2014, her second book was released, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was (in French, Confessions post-référendaires: Les acteurs politiques de 1995 et le scénario d'un oui). The book, cowritten with Jean Lapierre, was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political ...
The reviews for the 2018 U.S. release were similarly positive: Laurie Hertzel wrote in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Beard’s book has all the required elements of a great memoir—a compelling story, deep introspection, fine writing and an unflinching quest for factual and emotional truth. This haunting book is a profoundly moving study of ...
The Amazon Canada First Novel Award, formerly the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented by Amazon.ca and The Walrus to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada. [1] It has been awarded since 1976. [1]