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Literary Criticism Canadian

The Quebec Anthology

1830-1990

edited by Matt Cohen & Wayne Grady

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2024
Category
Canadian, 19th Century, 20th Century
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776617213
    Publish Date
    Oct 1997
    List Price
    $12.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776603476
    Publish Date
    Oct 1997
    List Price
    $26.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780776604336
    Publish Date
    Oct 1997
    List Price
    $45.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776643953
    Publish Date
    Sep 2024
    List Price
    $25.95

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Matt Cohen was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1942. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Toronto. In the late 1960s he taught political economy at McMaster University before becoming a full-time writer. Since 1969 he has published twenty books, including novels, short stories, poetry and two books for children.

He received critical acclaim for many of his books, notably `The Salem Novels` - The Disinherited (1974), The Colours of War (1977), The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone (1979), Flowers of Darkness (1981), and Emotional Arithmetic (1990). He was short-listed for the Governor General's Award in 1979 for The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone and was a finalist for the 1988 Ontario Trillium Award for his short story collection Living on Water. As well, his short stories have twice won National Magazine Awards, and his books have been translated into Dutch, French and Portuguese.

Matt Cohen died in 1999.

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Wayne Grady is the general editor of this series of literary anthologies devoted to the world's natural wonders. One of Canada's foremost popular science writers and the winner of three Science in Society awards from the Canadian Science Writers' Association, he is the author of twelve nonfiction books on such diverse adventures as hunting dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert, investigating global warming at the North Pole, and discovering the wild in an urban metropolis. His books include the bestselling Tree: A Life Story, written with David Suzuki, and Bringing Back the Dodo. His most recent book is the award-winning The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region. He lives near Kingston, Ontario.

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