"Authors selected for Canada Reads"

Margaret Atwood female, 70 years old: Canadian, Feminist, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Governor General's Award winning poet, AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads, literary criticism…Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years,...

Leonard Cohen male, 75 years old: singer-songwriter, Chelsea Hotel No. 2, World star, Bird on the Wire, suzanne, singer…Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Canada, AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads; Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen...

Michael Ondaatje male, 66 years old: Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, poet, sri lankan, Booker Prize winner, the english patient, Queen's University alumni…Order of Canada, immigrant to Canada, Officer of the Order of Canada, AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads; Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC,, (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning...

Sheila Fischman female, 71 years old: Columbia University, AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads, Governor General's Award, Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Perfect Circle, 1998 Governor General's Awards…Canada Council Prize for Translation, Prize for Translation, Canada Council, Canada Reads, Member of the Order of Canada; Sheila Leah Fischman, C.M., M.A., D.U. (born 1 December 1937) is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary...

George Elliott Clarke male, 49 years old: Windsor Plains, Governor General's Award winning poet, Nova Scotia writer, fredericton, African-American studies, AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads…Canada Reads, Governor General's Award for poetry; George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the...

Hubert Aquin male, deceased (1977) (Independence, United States): HA! A Self-Murder Mystery, French Quebecer, Quebec writer, novelist, committed suicide, Canada Reads…AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads; Hubert Aquin, was chosen for the 2003 edition of CBC Radio's "Canada Reads" competition, where it was championed by journalist Denise Bombardier....

Thomas King male, 66 years old: Canadian of Greek descent, Canadian of German descent, American, New Democratic Party, ndp, Candidate for the Canadian House of Commons…Aboriginal peoples in Canada, American expatriate academic in Canada, AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads, American expatriate writer in Canada, Member of the Order of Canada; Thomas King (born 24 April 1943) is a noted Canadian novelist and broadcaster who most often writes about Canada's First Nations and is an...

Rohinton Mistry male, 57 years old: Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Bombay University, Indo-Canadian, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Books in Canada First Novel Award, short stories…immigrant to Canada, AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads, Canada Council; Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India in 1952 and immigrated to Canada in 1975 where he took employment working for a Toronto bank. After...

Yann Martel male, 46 years old: life of pi, Man Booker Prize, nancy lee, salamanca, Canada Reads, novelist…AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads; Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain) is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel "Life of Pi". As an...

Alice Munro female, 78 years old: Women short story writer, Canadian of English descent, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Canadian women writer, Canadian of Scottish descent, Governor General's Award…AuthorsselectedforCanadaReads; Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a t...

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