Tag Archives: Literary

When John Degen’s murder-mystery novel Seldom Seen Road is published next month, he’ll be one of the first Canadian authors to have a small label with the words “Human Authored” printed on the back of the book jacket. The certification — developed by the Society of Authors, a U.K. trade …

Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces has won a Governor General’s Literary Award, an annual prize that honours Canadian excellence in literature and awards the winners $25,000 to boot.  Abel’s novel reimagines James Fenimore Cooper’s 19th-century text The Last of the Mohicans from a modern urban perspective, as he explores what it means to be Indigenous without …

When Niigaan Sinclair pitched his collection of articles to a Toronto publisher, he was told Winipek: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre was a “regional book.” The Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe columnist and editor recalls being told to expect scant attention outside major urban centres, so he wasn’t surprised to see “like …