Michael Ondaatje

The judges were harsh, the verdict heartbreaking

''It doesn't stop here ... soon I will prove myself worthy as a singer and take the world by storm.''When 30-year-old Paula Goodspeed, after her failed American Idol audition, wrote these hopeful words on her MySpace site in...

Wild child

Saturday, 15th November 2008 Published Date: 15 November 2008 IS THE URGE TO EXPLORE genetic? After working in theatre marketing for more than a decade she quit her job to explore, first Egypt's Western Desert and then the Sou...

The McBurney equation

The artistic director of Complicite theatre company has been busy exploring the art of numbers, writes Jane Cornwell | November 15, 2008 Article from: The Australian SIMON McBurney is used to finding beauty in art, music and...

Ondaatje, Coupland among strong Canadian showing on IMPAC longlist

Michael Ondaatje, Douglas Coupland and other familiar Canadian authors have made the first cut for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A long list of 146 writers are in the running, Eibhlin Byrne, Lord...

147 authors fight it out for the Impac Dublin prize

In contention: Ian McEwan, author of On Chesil Beach. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje was nominated by 13 libraries, just ahead of Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, which received 10 nods. The longlist in full: A Curious Intimacy...

Joseph Boyden named Giller Prize winner

Joseph Boyden waves from his table at the beginning of the Giller Prize gala in Toronto on Tuesday. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press) Joseph Boyden is the latest winner of the Giller Prize, Canada's richest award for fiction, for his...

Bookseller calls Giller prize 'our mini-Academy Awards'

TORONTO - A new wave of Canadian writers will be feted at tonight's Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony, as the lucrative book award celebrates its 15th year. Tory McNally, co-owner of McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg,...

The Making Of A Posthumous Best-Seller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.

Who should win the Giller? Who will win?

Andrew Gorham Just to remind you guys, I picked the winner last year. Sandra Martin But there were big names who didn't make it onto this list – Nino Ricci, David Adams Richards, Patrick Lane – Lane with a debut novel but...

A sea change in civic thinking

In their contribution to a new anthology titled HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-Flow Toilets, architects Kim Storey and James Brown summarize the basic problem facing all such efforts: ''The best...

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