Search Results by tag: Charles Foran

Charles Foran explores Munro Country, Slavoj Zizek accused of plagiarism, and more

Charles Foran explores Munro Country, the area in Southern Ontario that helped forge the Nobel Prize winner's literary sensibility Bert Archer on the places that helped shape other writers, including Hunter S. Thompson, Mary Shelley, ... Read More »

July 14, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Trillin and Foran on Mordecai Richler, EU pushes open access, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Calvin Trillin and Charles Foran on satire and Mordecai Richler EU pushes open access with research grants Kobo to sell Harry Potter ebooks Study shows Amazon user reviews as reliable as media experts U.K. publisher ... Read More »

May 17, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Spring preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction

By Natalie Samson

In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories about life in these ... Read More »

January 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Foran, deWitt add GGs to literary accolades

By Stuart Woods

Two of the most high-profile winners of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards have already won major literary prizes this season. Charles Foran won the non-fiction prize for Mordecai: The Life & Times (Knopf Canada), which ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Richler bio wins Charles Taylor Prize

By Nathan Whitlock

Charles Foran was awarded this year's $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction for his biography Mordecai: The Life and Times (Knopf Canada) at a lunchtime ceremony in Toronto today. He beat out Stevie Cameron ... Read More »

February 14, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Richler's film apprenticeship

By Stuart Woods

Charles Foran, writing in The Walrus (subscription required), previews the TV adaptation of Mordecai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman, which airs Sept. 19 and 20 on CBC. Foran also describes Richler's involvement with the film industry, ... Read More »

September 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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