Golda Fried – Author Interview
Nellcott Is My Darling is Golda´s second book and a finalist for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. Her first was a collection of short stories titled Darkness
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A Girl Like Che Guevara Review
In Havana, Cuba during 1982 high school students were required to put in time in the Tobacco fields as part of their learning and as service to the communist regime. A Girl Like Che Guevara follows the life of sixteen year old Lourdes Torres through her four month term in the School-in-the-Fields, Pinar del Rio camp.
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Stolen Moments with Camilla Gibb
Sweetness in the Belly was recently short listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction. This is one of Canada’s prestigious literary prizes and although Camilla did not take home the trophy
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Joyce Hackett – Author Interview
If you have one passion in life, you´re lucky. If you have two you must be blessed. Besides being a full-time writer Joyce Hackett is also a community activist with “emphasis on the active”.
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Elizabeth Ruth – Author Interview
Her first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence garnered the Writer’s Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, the City of Toronto Book Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. With two novels published and an anthology she compiled and edited, it’s obvious
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Marsha Mehran – Author Interview
Marsha Mehran was born in Tehran (an Iran province), grew up in Argentina and currently divides her time between New York and Ireland. Her first release, Pomegranate Soup,
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The Sea Wins the Man Booker Prize
Last night at an awards dinner in Guildhall, London Banville was named the winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sea. The Dublin author was shortlisted in 1989.
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What is Literary Fiction?
With literary fiction the language is heavier, the imagery lush, the characters detailed and story line thought provoking. Literary fiction by design leaves a deeper impression