Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz was born in Sydney and has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter. A Fraction of the Whole is his ... [... more]
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Rawi Hage from HarperCollins Publishers
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator, and he resides in Montreal. First published in Canada, De Niro's Game was a finalist for that nation's top ... [... more]
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Catherine Hanrahan
Catherine Hanrahan 's fiction has appeared in Zoetrope All-Story Extra and Open City. Born in Montreal, she has lived in Thailand, England, and Japan, where she worked as a bar hostess and English teacher. [... more]
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Heather O'Neill
Heather O'Neill is a contributor to This American Life, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Montreal, Canada. [... more]
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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934. His artistic career began in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, which Ecco will reissue in a fiftieth-anniversary edition. Cohen is the author of twelve ... [... more]
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Michel Auger
On September 13, 2000, Michel Auger was walking away from his car in a parking lot across the street from the offices of Le Journal de Montréal when he was shot in the back six times. Miraculously, although at least one bullet lodged in his ... [... more]
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Elaine Kalman Naves
Montreal - an island at the confluence of two rivers, adorned with an unspoiled mountain at its centre has been the inspiration of poets, novelists, playwrights, and memoirists since the time of Cartier and is the only city in the world with a ... [... more]
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Nicolas Dickner
Nicolas Dickner won two literary awards for his first published work, the short story collection . Born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, he travelled extensively in Europe and Latin America before settling in Montreal. Written by Nicolas Dickner, ... [... more]
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Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer, a Companion of the Order of Canada, was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Montreal. He has acted in more than one hundred feature films, and he has starred in Great Britain's National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare ... [... more]
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Neil Smith
Neil Smith is a Montreal writer. He has won an honourable mention at the National Magazine Awards, first prize at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, and was nominated for the Journey Prize three times. His writing has appeared in , Coming ... [... more]
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Sean Dixon
The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club loves to bring to life tableaux from the books they read. But when they begin to enact the Epic of Gilgamesh in the early days of the Iraq War, the book begins to enact their lives instead, ... [... more]
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D'Arcy Jenish
The definitive history of the Montreal Canadiens-to coincide with their Centenary in 2009 Before there were slapshots, Foster Hewitt, or even an NHL, there were the Canadiens. Founded on December 4, 1909, the team won its first Stanley Cup in ... [... more]
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