HOOGLAND, CORNELIA
CORNELIA HOOGLAND’s Trailer Park Elegy (Harbour, 2017), was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ 2018 Raymond Souster Award. Hoogland’s full-length play “RED” (Fountainhead Theatre, directed by John Gerry), is based on the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood, as is Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn), short-listed for the ReLit Award for Poetry. Two […]
Hassan, Ali
ALI HASSAN is a stand-up comic, actor and radio & television personality. For the past two years, he has hosted Canada Reads, the annual “Battle of the Books” on CBC Radio and Television. He is also the regular host of Laugh Out Loud on CBC Radio and SiriusXM, and a frequent guest-host on q, Canada’s […]
Hamilton, Ian
IAN HAMILTON is the author of the Ava Lee series. The books have been shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the Arthur Ellis Award, the Barry Award, and the Lambda Literary Prize, and are national bestsellers. The Water Rat of Wanchai was the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was named […]
Hage, Rawi
Born in Beirut, RAWI HAGE grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus and relocated to Montreal in 1991, where he studied Photography at Dawson College and Fine Arts at Concordia University. His debut novel, De Niro’s Game (2006), won the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and […]
Groth, Simon
SIMON GROTH is a writer and editor whose books include Off The Record: 25 Years of Music Street Press and Hunted Down and Other Tales. Simon’s work and reporting on the future of the book with Queensland Writers Centre has seen him travel the globe to discuss and explore the challenges and opportunities for writers […]
Groth, Darren
DARREN GROTH is the author of several novels, including the acclaimed YA works Are You Seeing Me? and Munro vs. the Coyote. He was the winner of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Award for Young Adult Fiction and has been a finalist in numerous other prestigious prizes, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Sheila A. […]
Grassi, Laurie
LAURIE GRASSI joined Simon & Schuster Canada in January 2017 as Senior Editor. Before that she worked in publishing for over two decades, notably as books editor at Chatelaine magazine, where she interviewed Elizabeth Gilbert, David Mitchell, Helen Humphreys, and David Nicholls, among others. Current authors include New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley, Governor […]
GRADY, WAYNE
WAYNE GRADY is the author of 16 books of non-fiction and 3 novels. He is also an award-winning translator: his translation of Antonine Maillet’s On the Eighth Day won the Governor General’s Award in 1989. His novel Emancipation Day won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2013, and his most recent novel, The Good Father, […]
Gaston, Bill
BILL GASTON is the author of over a dozen novels and short fiction collections. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2003 inaugural Timothy Findley Lifetime Achievement Award and the CBC/Canadian Literary Award. He has been nominated twice for the Governor General’s Award, and won the Ethel Wilson Prize for his novel The […]
Edugyen, Esi
ESI EDUGYAN is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize and the Orange Prize. In 2014, she published her first book of non-fiction, Dreaming of Elsewhere: […]