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Milan Kundera accused of acting as a Communist informant in the 1950s

The reclusive Czech-born author Milan Kundera has been accused of informing on a man who allegedly worked as a spy in the 1950s. According to the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, a 1950 ... Read More »

October 14, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Guardian, Nobel jury head Horace Engdahl has got a bit of a hate-on for U.S. authors, describing U.S. writing as "insular and ignorant": Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told ... Read More »

October 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Opinion

Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

By Jacob Sheen

Eye Weekly has a brief history of the World's Biggest Bookstore in downtown Toronto. Apparently, it used to be a bowling alley. (Bring your own tenpins and a bowling ball and it still could be.) ... Read More »

February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Photos from the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award

By Nathan Whitlock

Last night, the winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers was announced. This being the first year the award is sponsored by the RBC Foundation, the ceremony was held, appropriately enough, in ... Read More »

January 16, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Todd Babiak vs. toddbabiak.com

By Stuart Woods

In a sardonic post announcing his reluctant embrace of the blogosphere, Edmonton author Todd Babiak (The Book of Stanley, The Garneau Block) expresses his instinctive distaste for self-serving author blogs: I used to make fun ... Read More »

November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Spider-Man, Superman conquer the Internet

By Stuart Woods

Ever notice that kids these days just aren't into ol' fashioned, ink-and-paper comic books? Well, apparently comics publishers have, and they're worried that new fangled technologies like the Web and video games are diverting kids ... Read More »

November 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

CanLit galore at Toronto's film fest

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off next week, and the lineup features a healthy array of CanLit tie-ins. There's already been much ballyhoo about Jeremy Podeswa's adaptation of Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces, and about ... Read More »

August 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Harper appoints new Heritage minister

By Nathan Whitlock

Yesterday's cabinet shuffle in Stephen Harper's government included moving Josee Verner into Bev Oda's position as minister of Canadian Heritage. Verner, who was first elected in the Quebec City riding of Louis-Saint-Laurent in 2006, was ... Read More »

August 15, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Rush Limbaugh, literary journalist

By Leigh Anne Williams

Journalist Alan Weisman has just published The World Without Us, a non-fiction tome based on an intriguing premise: how would the Earth change if the human population disappeared overnight? The book has already drawn some ... Read More »

July 19, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Dion promises to restore public diplomacy funding

By Nathan Whitlock

Liberal party leader Stephane Dion met with a few Canadian writers last week at the Drake Hotel in Toronto and promised that a Liberal government would restore the $11.8-million in public diplomacy funding cut from ... Read More »

July 11, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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Search Results by tag: race

Milan Kundera accused of acting as a Communist informant in the 1950s

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

Photos from the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award

Todd Babiak vs. toddbabiak.com

Spider-Man, Superman conquer the Internet

CanLit galore at Toronto's film fest

Harper appoints new Heritage minister

Rush Limbaugh, literary journalist

Dion promises to restore public diplomacy funding

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