It's halfway through Movember, and even some of Canada's literary talent are sporting new upper-lip hair, raising money for prostate cancer research. Q&Q discovered The Cat's Mustache, a hirsute team of Canadian authors and poets, ... Read More »
Search Results by tag: Lawrence Hill
Canadian film director Clément Virgo (Poor Boy's Game, Lie With Me) is developing an adaptation of Lawrence Hill's bestseller, The Book of Negroes, to begin shooting next year. Hill's publisher, HarperCollins Canada, sold the film ... Read More »
September 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Lawrence Hill learned last week that a Dutch activist “ Roy Groenberg, leader of a group known as the Foundation Honor and Restore Victims of Slavery in Suriname “ objected to the use of the ... Read More »
June 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
When you consider how astoundingly well Lawrence Hill's 2007 novel The Book of Negroes has been selling, it was probably inevitable that somebody would want to turn the book into a film. According to a ... Read More »
August 19, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news
CBC Radio's annual battle of the books, Canada Reads, kicks off today with five celebrity panelists each defending one Canadian novel they think that Canada should read. Each day this week, one novel gets knocked ... Read More »
March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
At this point, you gotta wonder: has anyone in Canada not read Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes? Released by HarperCollins Canada more than two years ago, the book has grown from a solid word-of-mouth ... Read More »
February 13, 2009 | Filed under: Awards
It's safe to say that last year's Giller Prize-winner, Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, caught some pundits off-guard. (Ahem.) This year, the peanut gallery has kept curiously mum on who will take home the ... Read More »
November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards
The Globe and Mail reports that the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command has been trying to find and question Joshua Key, a deserter who took refuge in Canada and recently published an account of his ... Read More »
March 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
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