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Canadian literature. does it exist? is it anything other than DUDE AT LEAST WE AREN'T AMERICA LMAO

>> No.8775872

>>8775869
Sasha sokolov was born in Canada

>> No.8775882

Read Wacousta. Also, check out Margaret Atwood.

>> No.8775886

>>8775869
Alice Munro is the best living author

>t. Norm

But really, Anne Carson is brilliant

>> No.8775938

>>8775882
that's actually the only canadian author I've read. the handmaid tale. was alright.

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Tons of good CanLit out there, from batshit insane to quite normal.

>> No.8778520

>>8777005
>Leonard Cohen
D-does this mean that he's a candidate for the Canadian Nobel Prize for Literature?

>> No.8778527

>>8775869
Mavis Gallant, bruh. Probably the best canuck writer of all time, Munro shills be damned.

>> No.8778540

>>8775869
Mordecai Richler

Michael Ondaantje

Joseph Boyden

Mavis Gallant

Al Purdy

>> No.8778758

>>8778520
Sure, but he already turned that down ages ago (Governor General's Award, 1968: refused).

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8779355

How the fuck has no one mentioned Robertson Davies yet? Isn't he famous in Canada?

He's probably the best Canadian novelist ever...See: Fifth Business.

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>>8779355
We just started listing (I didn't bother because there are just too many good names). I like Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, Anne Hebert, Evelyn Lau, Alice Munro, Michael Ontaatje, Jane Urquhart, Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, Leonard Cohen, etc.

>> No.8779548

>>8775869
Albertan here, local flea market guy comes into a lot of Canadian literature and I usually buy 5-7 books off him every weekend. A lot of books on railways and rivers and lakes fascinate me. Also a lot of stories of early RCMP officers and their experiences, and a few books on native Americans.

Goof stuff, really like the geological ones.

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>>8775869

>> No.8779613

>>8775869
Timothy Findley

>> No.8780974

>>8775869
New Canadian Library is a good place to look for decent books, like an earlier anon said. I like the old paperback design from the 60s-70s better than the new design they have now, though.

>> No.8781640

>>8775869
Canadian here, the only canadian book ive read that's jumping to mind is The Book of Negroes, which is pretty great. Also that album is amazing.

>> No.8782957

Hugh Maclennan
Graeme Gibson
Gilles Henault
George Bowering
Christian Bok
Al Purdy
Rawi Hage
Evelyn Lau
Bliss Carman

There's tons of great Canadian lit and yet we still have this thread once every three weeks.

Read a fucking book.

>> No.8783063

>>8775869
If you want to count comics/graphic novels Bryan Lee O'Malley is pretty good. Scott Pilgrim and Seconds really capture the mindset of being a Young Adult and the mental hangups people face.

>> No.8783066

Come on, no Saul Bellow yet?

>> No.8783203

>>8775869
Mordecai Richler is great but most great canadian literature is written in french.

>> No.8783543

>>8779568
Also the baby freezes to death.

>> No.8783571

Does anyone here have an opinion on Douglas Copeland? I haven't read anything by hm but i know the CBC adapted at least one of his books

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He's not everyone's cup of tea, but I love almost all of Douglas Coupland's work

>> No.8784975

>>8783577
Microserfs and jpod were ok, but the other two books of his ive read(generation A, gum thief) put me off of him bigtime. They both start of decent but slowly devolve into him trying to meme a story in a story into a good idea.

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Dis nigga

>> No.8785151

>>8784975
>>8783577
>>8783571
Hey, Nostradamus! is his best novel. Life After God is probably second.

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>>8775869
>nobody mentions Marian Engel
Bear is literally the first think I think of when someone says "Canadian literature."