[This article was originally published at The 49th Shelf] Diverse CanLit: A Lit Wish From Léonicka Valcius I only discovered CanLit two years ago. Though I was born in Montreal, I grew up in the US. The only exposure I had to Canadian literature was reading The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (still one… Read Post
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#DiverseCanLit Scotiabank Giller Prize
Every time I do this I think I’ll be pleasantly surprised by the result. I think it’ll be better this time. And the Giller actually is. As the results below show, the Giller is slightly more diverse than the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. But that’s not saying… Read Post
#DiverseCanLit Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
CanLit made headlines last week because of sexist and racist comments by Canadian novelist David Gilmour. The drama began with his interview in Hazlitt magazine where he said he didn’t teach books by women, only “serious heterosexual guys,” then continued in the National Post where he made a bad situation worse. The Canadian publishing industry… Read Post
#DiverseCanLit TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
I often rely on anecdotal information when I speak about the lack of diversity in Canadian publishing. I’ll talk about the demographics of my publishing class, my difficulty finding diverse books on shelves, and compare the number of books about black children to the number of books about dinosaurs. However the work by Cooperative Children’s… Read Post
