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Michel
Basilières (Black Bird)
Michel
Basilieres grew up in Montreal with his French father and Anglophone
mother. He now lives in Toronto, where he is writing his second novel.
George
Bowering (Stone Country)
George
Bowering is a major figure in Canadian Literature, having published
poetry, literary criticism and other prose. He has won Governor
General’s Awards for both poetry and fiction. Bowering, who lives in
Vancouver, is Canada’s first poet laureate.
Ian
Ferguson (Village of Small Houses)
Ian
Ferguson is an award-winning playwright and humourist. Currently living
in Los Angeles and developing a television series, he was previously
shortlisted with his brother Will for the Leacock Award for the
best-seller How to Be a Canadian.
Stuart
McLean (Vinyl Café Diaries)
Stuart
McLean is one of Canada’s most popular broadcast personalities and the
host of the “Vinyl
Café” on CBC Radio; he is a two time winner of the Leacock Award, and
a professor of broadcast journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Patricia
Pearson (Playing House)
Patricia
Pearson has written award-winning nonfiction and commentary. Playing
House is her first novel
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