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Fiction Anthologies (multiple Authors)

Emergent Voices

CBC Canadian Literary Awards Stories, 1979-1999

edited by Robert Weaver

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1999
Category
Anthologies (multiple authors), Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864922670
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz are among the winners of the CBC Literary Award who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in Canadian literature. They and other past winners are included in Emergent Voices. For over twenty years, Robert Weaver has coordinated one of Canada's most important literary awards for emerging writers, the CBC Canadian Literary Awards. Weaver founded the awards and has been tireless in promoting them.

About the author

Robert Weaver was Canada’s pre-eminent literary impresario. He joined the CBC in 1948, and for almost four decades he guided the most significant cultural programs in the country. His radio programs, especially Anthology, provided an encouraging yet rigorous forum for story-writers, as did the Tamarack Review, of which he was a co-founder and the inspiring force. In 1979, he founded the Canadian Literary Awards, co-sponsored by the CBC and various partners, including the Canada Council for the Arts and Saturday Night, which since 1994 has published the winning stories. As well as organizing the Canadian Literary Competition, Robert Weaver was fiction editor of Saturday Night. He edited many anthologies, including six editions of Canadian Short Stories and The Anthology Anthology: A Selection from Thirty Years of CBC Radio’s “Anthology.” He co-edited two editions each of The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature and The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English, and he was the editor of Mavis Gallant’s collection The End of the World and Other Stories.

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Editorial Reviews

"A pleasant flow — the tapes would be equally listenable — to in one long gulp on a car ride, or one story at a time."

<i>Quill & Quire</i>

"Let these voices transport you."

<i>Atlantic Books Today</i>