For this year’s advent calendar, I am recommending Canadian authors/books found on Schatje’s Shelves. Again, to make things more interesting/challenging, I will use the alphabet, skipping “X” and “Z”. In total, I propose to focus on 50 Canadian writers, an early nod to Canada's 150th birthday next year.
“H” is for Elizabeth
Hay
Hay writes both short stories and novels; it is for the
latter that I know her.
Novels:
A Student of Weather (finalist
for 2000 Giller Prize and Governor-General’s Award)
Garbo Laughs
Late Nights on Air (winner
of 2007 Giller Prize)
Alone in the Classroom
His Whole Life (shortlisted
for 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize)
See my review at http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2015/08/review-of-his-whole-life-by-elizabeth.html.
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“H” is for Lawrence
Hill
Hill is best known for
The Book of Negroes which was adapted into a six-part television
miniseries.
Novels (which I recommend):
The Book of Negroes
(winner of 2009 Canada Reads, 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and Rogers
Writers’ Trust Fiction Award, and longlisted for 2008 IMPAC Award)
The Illegal
(winner of 2016 Canada Reads) See my review at http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2015/09/review-of-illegal-by-lawrence-hill.html.
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