Demetra on Samos
Demetra Angelis Foustanellas came late to writing. Born in 1957 in Ottawa to Greek immigrant parents — her mother from Samos and her father from Skopelos — she started writing about ten years ago. With...
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My initial reaction to The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction (Penguin Random House Canada 2020), the most recent book by André Alexis, was this: imagine that you are having the strangest dreams,...
View ArticleAnn-Marie
Actor and author Ann-Marie MacDonald was in London this week to promote her novel, just released here in England by Sceptre (out in September 2014 in Canada): Adult Onset. Briefly, the main character,...
View ArticleSusan Örnbratt
Susan Örnbratt (née Beck) was born in 1964 in London, Ontario, but met the other London when growing up, having visited the UK for family reasons (father from Ascot and mother from Paisley, Scotland)....
View ArticleJeremy Mercer
Up a narrow rutted road, surrounded by fields, and hills at a distance, sits a large farmhouse*, part of which is owned by a man who is so enthusiastic that he is the epitome of joie de vivre. Thin,...
View ArticleNaomi Guttman
Before leaving Canada for the United States, Naomi Guttman lived in Montreal, which is where we met sometime in the 1980s. (We both had work published in the anthology Celebrating Canadian Women in...
View ArticleSurrendering to Gammon
Carolyn Gammon is no stranger to Canadian Writers Abroad, having been profiled by Gabriella Goliger (From Fredericton to Berlin) and having shared her poetry with us (“Fault Line“). Thirty years in...
View ArticleThe Child Soldiers of Africa’s Red Army
Carol Berger is both an anthropologist and a writer, and she brings these skills together in her examination of the “lost boys,” in her book, The Child Soldiers of Africa’s Red Army: The Role of Social...
View ArticleMark Sampson
Graduates who leave home to teach English as a Second Language abroad are not a rare species. What is rare is writing a book that enters into the controversial history of the place one finds oneself...
View ArticleMavis Gallant
So busy have I been with the tenth anniversary of Canadian Writers Abroad, I overlooked the centenary of Mavis Gallant’s birth. Thanks to Bill Richardson for bringing this to all of Canada’s attention,...
View ArticleThree Questions for Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger, novelist, professor, writer on the cutting edge of technology, has been living in the UK since the 1980s. Although she is a very busy woman, on her return from her summer trip to...
View ArticleFrom Redcap to Kappa: Jamie Tennant
Jamie Tennant interviewed by Debra Martens Jamie Tennant is the author of The Captain of Kinnoull Hill (Palimpsest Press, 2016) and River, Diverted (Palimpsest Press, 2022). Writer, broadcaster,...
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